Can any of these tools monitor for restore tape mounts, *AND*
display a list of any additional tapes (with it's Volume
Group if it's not in the library) required ?

/Steve
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On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, King, Cheryl wrote:

> That's what OpenView Operations (OVO) does.   You run an agent on the
> NetBackup system to monitor all the log files and the /var/adm/messages.
> You can monitor processes and lots of other things.  You can also use
> the custom scripts you already have and just use opcmsg to send messages
> to the OpenView agent.  There is also a Smart Plug in (SPI) for
> NetBackup- I'm not sure what that includes but I believe it's free;
> downloadable from the HP OpenView website.
>
>
>
> You can add commands to the Application bank in OpenView to allow the
> NOC to do Veritas commands.  And/Or you can add commands as automatic
> actions to certain messages like tape drive going DOWN.
>
>
>
> Brian,
>
>
>
> Do you use Message Keys?  They can easily be used for message
> correlation at no extra cost, instead of ECS.  ECS is only needed for
> complex correlation.
>
>
>
> Cheryl
>
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
> From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Hindle,
> Greg
> Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 1:42 PM
> To: briandiven AT northwesternmutual DOT com; veritas-bu AT 
> mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup monitoring
>
>
>
> We have open view now. But there is no way of tying in open view to
> netbackup to up drives or restart jobs is there? How can netbackup send
> data to open view for things such as what backups failed, drives or
> robots that are down etc. without having to have some script running on
> the master and sending trap to open view, right? Am I missing something?
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> Greg
>
>
>
>       -----Original Message-----
>       From: briandiven AT northwesternmutual DOT com
> [mailto:briandiven AT northwesternmutual DOT com]
>       Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 3:38 PM
>       To: Hindle, Greg; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>       Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup monitoring
>
>       I primarily use HP OpenView for Operations (OVO).  It would be
> nice to also get ECS (Event Correlation Services) with it, but that's an
> extra cost.
>
>
>
>       We also use autosys to schedule the running of some scripts that
> will send information to syslog, which OVO will then detect, assess, and
> possibly notify.
>
>
>
>
> ________________________________
>
>
>       From: veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> [mailto:veritas-bu-admin AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Hindle,
> Greg
>       Sent: Thursday, January 26, 2006 2:14 PM
>       To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
>       Subject: [Veritas-bu] Netbackup monitoring
>
>       Solaris 9 nb5.1 mp4
>
>       Does anyone use external monitoring tools for netbackup?  We
> have many custom scripts created to perform some monitoring tasks but I
> have been tasked with looking for something that can automate allot of
> the monitoring without having to write a customer script for everything.
> Management also wants our NOC people to take over some of the monitoring
> for us to allow us to get to the real work instead of worry about upping
> drives or restarting failed jobs. Any ideas?
>
>
>       Greg
>
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