Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE This may be a little off track but in the same vein...
We are using NB to backup SAP databases. NB interfaces to the database thru SAP brtools and rman. Brtools creates a extensive and detailed log of the database backup so we use a perl script to pick out the messages that we are interested in and then email the reduced log to SAP admins. If anyone else is doing something similar and is interested, I can post the script. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Glazerman Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 9:15 AM To: Jeff Lightner; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Individual backup status emails Thanks Jeff, We used to have a similar cron job which would dump all non 0 status messages into a file which printed every morning. It was more for SOX compliance than anything else. Now we just file all of our non 0 backup emails in an archive folder after we've gone through any errors from the previous night. As I mentioned in my earlier reply, the email notifications are flaky to say the least and just last night, we stopped getting emails regarding the catalogs again. We receive catalog emails even if the catalog runs successfully and we use that as a pretty good check that NBU is running OK. I checked this morning and all emails reporting successful backups have been received as normal but catalog backup confirmations stopped dead at just after 6pm. A quick check of the admin console this morning confirms that everything ran (including the catalogs) but no emails !! Mark Glazerman Desk: 314-889-8282 Cell: 618-520-3401 P please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to From: Jeff Lightner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 9:06 AM To: Mark Glazerman; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Individual backup status emails The daily backup status report is one we generate at 9 AM ever day via a cron entry. 00 9 * * * /root/scripts/status.sh The script the cron job runs is: #!/bin/sh # Shell to generate BR status report and mail to admins echo "Subject: Atubks01 Backup Status Report" > /tmp/status /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bperror -U -backstat -s info >> /tmp/status /usr/bin/mail [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] < /tmp/status ^^^END OF SCRIPT^^^ Of course you can add as many recipients at you want and I've obfuscated our real ones to prevent spam. This is running on HP-UX 11.11 (a/k/a 11i v1) The report we get gives us the exit status of all the jobs run in the last 24 hours both 0 and non-zero exit status. Its good for a quick glance in the morning to see if anything has gone horribly wrong. The individual emails are better for seeing things pop up throughout the day. ________________________________ From: Mark Glazerman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 4:40 PM To: Jeff Lightner; VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Individual backup status emails Jeff, We've seen some strange stuff going on with our email notifications too. For about 3 days we didn't get any catalog notifications and then all of a sudden they started up again. As far as we know we are getting all the non 0 failure notifications too. Luckily we don't have a huge backup environment so it's easy to check that the failures in the admin console match with the emails we receive and vice versa. I'm interested to know what you mean by the daily full status report ? Is this something new in 6.5 that shows an overall picture of the previous nights backups ? How do you activate that feature ? Mark Glazerman Desk: 314-889-8282 Cell: 618-520-3401 P please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeff Lightner Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2008 7:38 AM To: VERITAS-BU@mailman.eng.auburn.edu Subject: [Veritas-bu] Individual backup status emails I've noticed since our upgrade to 6.5 that while we do get the occasional individual non-zero status email for individual backups we're obviously not getting them all. We are getting the daily full status report and as noted do get some of the individual ones but I don't see a pattern to what we do get and don't get. Has anyone seen this and if so did you figure out what it was? Even though I was able to verify sendmail was working on the master by generating mail at the command line I went ahead and bounced sendmail yesterday. However, this morning I can still see some items that had non-zero exit which didn't send email. This NBU 6.5 on HP-UX 11.11. ---------------------------------- CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail may contain privileged or confidential information and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, distribution, or use of the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful. If you have received this electronic transmission in error, please reply immediately to the sender that you have received the message in error, and delete it. 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