Actually it depends on how long your timeout is set.  If you've set
things to timeout in 2 hours then 6 attempts would take 12 hours.  You
might want to know long before that.  On the other hand, setting the
timeout lower risks having the backup abort if it takes a long time
normally (e.g. a database backup). 

The observation wasn't saying what you want won't work but rather that
it is not truly "real time" which was what you'd put in your original
post.  You pays your nickel and you takes your choice.

-----Original Message-----
From: veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
[mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Travis
Kelley
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 8:37 AM
To: Donaldson, Mark; veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Real time failure notification

Not really.  We have netbackup configured to retry a backup if it
fails so there may be multiple "attempts" under the same jobid.  I
don't want to get an alert if Netbackup is already running the backup
again under another attempt.  I only want to get an alert after
Netbackup has tried the configured number of "attempts" and is failing
the jobid.  The way I see it is most of the time if something is
really broken it won't take long to run through the 5 attempts, fail
the job and alert, but if the box just got to busy and timed out or if
the backup process was killed unintentionally I'd rather Netbackup
handle retrying that on its own and not alert me.

On 2/4/09, Donaldson, Mark <Mark.Donaldson AT staples DOT com> wrote:
> Your "don't alert if retry was successful" automatically excludes the
> idea of a real-time monitor.
>
> It's a bit like saying "Don't alert if you're going to succeed in the
> future".
>
> We "solved" this by creating an after-the-fact monitor for our backups
-
> it searches the bpdbjobs output daily and parses that down to return
> code, policy, client, & fileset.  If a fileset fails more than X days
in
> a row (without a success in there somewhere) then it's reported on as
an
> "endangered fileset".
>
> It'd been decently effective.
>
> -M
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu] On Behalf Of Travis
> Kelley
> Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2009 8:36 AM
> To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
> Subject: [Veritas-bu] Real time failure notification
>
> Hi all.  I'm trying to find a solution to a monitoring problem we
> have.  I would like to create a mechanism to alert when a backup fails
> but to only send one alert if multiple streams from a backup fail.
> For instance if c: and d: both fail for a particular box, I only want
> 1 alert.  Also if a job fails twice but is successful on the third
> attempt I don't want an alert at all.  I only want to be alerted once
> when netbackup "gives up" on retrying a backup and fails the job.
> I've looked at backup_exit_notify but haven't been able to find a good
> way to implement this here.  Any ideas?
>
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