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Re: [Veritas-bu] Drive utilisation in Netbackup

2009-08-14 11:40:26
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Drive utilisation in Netbackup
From: ckstehman AT pepco DOT com
To: william.d.brown AT gsk DOT com
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:34:05 -0400

Hello,

There is a 3rd party product that will give you this information.,Aptare  Storage Console http://www.aptare.com
They will be happy to give you a demonstation.

There are two reports, with nice graphics.
1. shows globally by library the number or tapes in use hour by hour.
2. another shows utilization for each drive.hour by hour

We have used the product forf 5 years now.  A very valuable tool.
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Pepcoholdings, Inc.
701 Ninth St NW
Washington DC 20068
202-331-6619
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Well NOM can do this for you if your servers are 6.x.  It has a couple of
built-in reports, one for 'drives in use' (as in currently) and one for
'drive usage' for which you set a time frame, like 'last 24 hours' or
'last 7 days'.

I agree that I've seen people use DIY with vmoprcmd triggered at regular
intervals.  Also, some people use that just to 'UP' down drives
automatically every hour or so.  It woould work for pre-6.x versions as
well, but is a bit more challenging than NOM if you have a number of
domains.

Another approach if you use FC connected drives is think what tools you
have that can extract reports from the SAN switches.  If you use Brocade
you could run their free SAN Health tool for a limited period.  Once you
work out which ports the drives are connected to you can make a sensible
extract from the Excel it generates.  What that gives, which is otherwise
hard to get, is the actual throughput at the fibre port, so it doesn't
matter how many jobs are MPX to the drive.

You can infer utilisation (as in used/idle) from seeing the peaks &
troughs in the graphs.

Other framework products can also get this information using SNMP.

William D L Brown


veritas-bu-bounces AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu wrote on 12/08/2009 14:52:53:

> Hi Michael,
>
> Funny you ask, I am looking at the same task.  It has been suggested in
> the list in the past, to run;
>
> vmoprcmd -d ds
>
> To check for AVR,TLD (or whether a tape is in the drive).
>
> The problem here though is you would have to sample often on each media
> server.
>
> Anyone else have any suggestions on this one?
>
> Justin.
>
> On Wed, 12 Aug 2009, michael.ketley AT orange-ftgroup DOT com wrote:
>
> >
> > Does anyone have a useful script or a simple way of extracting 'drive
> > utilisation' from Netbackup.
> >
> > We use ACS, and up until recently could extract the information using
Bocada
> > reporting, unfortunately this has stopped working.
> >
> > Not after an exact science but some suggestions as to improving my
current
> > methods.
> >
> > Many thanks
> > Mike
> >
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