There are many ways to check. You might need more than one method to pick up 
all the reasons that netbackup  can fail.
I was going to address the issue about netbackup  standing still. 

We have been seeing issues with netbackup failing to do backups.

Which  version/release of netbackup are you using. 

Can you give use a feeling for how large you netbackup complex that failed is. 
How many clients, home many jobs, The nature of the jobs.
Do you have a large number of small rman/sql server jobs.
A few jobs with large files.

Was this with full backups or incr/diff backups.

Do you see the jobs fail to be queued, we have seen this   whereing nbpem 
stoped scheduling jobs. 
Or did some of the daemons/services core/abend.
Did the jobs queue and then not go active?
Did the jobs go active then seemed to hang. 
Other...
Do you have netbackup logging turned on.
Did you report the issue to netbackup tech support.

We have received EEB's from netbackup to    correct nbpem and bpdbm from 
failing with  a core dump.
And we have an eeb to help with nbpem failing to schedule. But we are not 
totally out of the   woods. 
We  wonder how many others are seeing these issues.

Regards len

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Graff Andersen
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2012 9:38 AM
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Subject: [Veritas-bu] Automatically check Netbackup for activity and jobs 
starting ?

Hello

We have had an issue where Netbackup was standing still, but all the services 
was up

We wonder what others do to automatically check Netbackup for activity and 
expected jobs starting up

Regards

Michael
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