Greetings,

I have no real experience with netbackup. I'm a linux engineer currently 
implementing a Puppet/kickstart based automated provisioning and installation 
system for our Linux hosts (RedHat and CentOS 5.1 through 6.2). The last item I 
have left on our list of manual install procedures is the netbackup client that 
we're using for all backups. I was hoping someone here would be kind enough to 
answer a few questions:

1) The clients for redhat/centos I've been given are called 
"NB_7.1_CLT_RedHat.tar.gz" and "NB_7.1.0.3_CLT_RedHat.tar.gz" (update/patch). 
The path within the former archive appears to be 
NB_7.1_CLT_RedHat/NBClients/anb/Clients/usr/openv/netbackup/client/Linux/RedHat2.6/.
 I assume this is for RedHat kernel 2.6. Is this correct? If so, does anyone 
know how this will play with CentOS 6.2 with a 3.2.x kernel?

2) I was astounded to see that this is a not-ancient client version, but 
appears to be distributed as a tar archive with a bunch of giant installer 
scripts. Aside from it being our new policy, in order to install via 
Puppet/kickstart or any other automated system, we need this packaged as an RPM 
that can be installed without user interaction. Does anyone have RPMs, or spec 
files, that are complete and will work for current RHEL/CentOS distros?

If not, would anyone be interested in collaborating on developing RPMs/spec 
files, and a Puppet module to install and configure netbackup?

Thanks,
Jason Antman
Linux System Administrator
TechTarget, Inc.
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