Here's a variant of my old drive monitor script.  Just run it on your
master server (only) via cron as often as you want to sample.  Perhaps
every 15 min.
 
It'll actively lookup your media servers, check them, and report drives
down on that media server.  It keeps a history file so it'll only report
a drive once unless it's cleared then reoccurs.  Change the MAILADDR
variable for your environment.

$>cat drivemon 
#!/bin/ksh
 
PATH=$PATH:/usr/openv/volmgr/bin:/usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd
 
MAILADDR=Netbackup.Support
 
# run-to-run history
HIST=/tmp/`basename $0`.hist
[ ! -f $HIST ] && touch $HIST
 
# temp file to gather vmoprcmd output
TMP=/tmp/`basename $0`.tmp
[ -f $TMP ]    && rm -f $TMP
 
#Log management
LOG=/usr/openv/netbackup/logs/`basename $0`.log
[ -f ${LOG}.5 ] && mv ${LOG}.5 ${LOG}.6
[ -f ${LOG}.4 ] && mv ${LOG}.4 ${LOG}.5
[ -f ${LOG}.3 ] && mv ${LOG}.3 ${LOG}.4
[ -f ${LOG}.2 ] && mv ${LOG}.2 ${LOG}.3
[ -f ${LOG}.1 ] && mv ${LOG}.1 ${LOG}.2
[ -f ${LOG}.0 ] && mv ${LOG}.0 ${LOG}.1
[ -f $LOG     ] && mv $LOG     ${LOG}.0
exec >$LOG 2>&1
echo "## Started: `date`"
 
for m in `bpstulist|awk '$5>=0 && $7>0 {print $3}'|sort|uniq`
do
  echo "## Gathering $m."
  vmoprcmd -h $m -xd ds|awk '$4~/DOWN/ {print "'$m' "$2}'|tee -a $TMP
done
 
while read mserver drive
do
  if [ `grep -c "^${mserver} ${drive}$" $HIST` -eq 0 ]
  then
    echo "## Drive $drive down on $mserver: Newly discovered."
    echo "Drive $drive on $mserver is down: `date`." | \
      mailx -s "NB Wrn: $mserver:$drive down" $MAILADDR
  else
    #Just debug info for logfile
    echo "## Drive $drive down on $mserver: Already Reported."
  fi
done <$TMP
 
mv -f $TMP $HIST
echo "## Done: `date`"
 
exit 

________________________________

From: veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces at mailman.eng.auburn.edu] On Behalf Of Matthew
Johnson
Sent: Friday, August 25, 2006 8:55 AM
To: veritas-bu at mailman.eng.auburn.edu
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Monitoring Tape drives



Hello all,

 

I was wondering if anyone out there recommends monitoring software or
has a script on there master/media server that monitors the tape drives.
We are in the process of getting something but it is going to take time.
I do not have the $$'s to purchase something. I would like to get an
e-mail when a drive goes down. 

 

Master Server Sun E450 controls the robot l700

Media Server MS Windows 2003 server controls 4 LTO2 tape drives

Media server Linux controls 6 9840B tape drives

 

Any ideas would be much appreciated. TIA  

 

Matthew Johnson

Entertainment Partners

Backup Administrator

Work - 818-955-6357

Cell - 805-469-8867

 

 

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