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March 8th, 2016 09:00
Daily automated report of failed backups
Hi all,
One requirement of my job is that everyone else needs to make sure I'm doing it. LOL In my days as a Netbackup Admin, I was able to configure a report that showed all failed client backups for the previous 24 hour period. The report would run at 8am each morning, gather a list of any failed backups for the previous 24-hour period (back to 8am the previous morning), and would automatically email a PDF report to anyone I added to the email distribution list.
Folks are now asking for the same thing to happen now that Networker is our main backup strategy. I'm not very good with CLI, so i went into the NMC, under notifications, and under the "savegroup failure" notification, I added "smtpmail -s subject -h mailserver recipient1@mailserver", of course, substituting my own info. However, I think all this will do is send me a live alert for each backup failure, which is helpful, but not what I need.
I can also go under the reports section of the NMC, and run those, but nothing there that I can generate and auto-send to email.
I do have DPA as well. Is it capable of doing what i need, or is all of this going to have to somehow be scrpited, and set up as a scheduled task in the OS?
Thanks all.
Todd
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March 8th, 2016 10:00
For a lot of scenarios, the group status and the email notifications are fine.
By including a trigger word in the subject line and setting up an appropriate filter you can lead the appropriate mail in a specific mailbox which makes it easier to recognize.
IMHO DPA is not the appropriate tool. It is to universal for that kind of report.
For an acceptable price you can get 'Backup Eagle' which has a lot of fixed and customizable reports which really helps in your daily administration work:
We use it since about 2 years and are very happy.
For more info, please go to Schmitz RZ Consult
As you see, it is capable to speak English as well ...
luiggi2014
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March 8th, 2016 13:00
Hi Toddman,
DPA is able to send you a report with the failed backups, definied within a schedule and a specified time-frame.
How this is done depens on de version you use of DPA.
Greetings
ble1
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March 9th, 2016 16:00
Use what you have. What you want is rather generic and simple so you can use NMC or DPA to get it.
Toddman214
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March 10th, 2016 08:00
I think I'm finally on the right trail. I can play around with various reports to get it to generate what i need. But, now Im having an issue finding where the email settings go, as my email options are unavailable (grayed out). I have my smtp settings, but not sure where they are added.
luiggi2014
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March 10th, 2016 14:00
Toddman214
Thats strange, you should be looking something like this:
To configure SMTP go to Admin>System>Configure System Settings and then go to "Server":
Hope this is useful
szymonilluzion
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March 11th, 2016 06:00
To monitor and report our backup env (DD + Avamar + Networker) we decide to use Bacup and Recovery Manager - BRM.
It is free software from EMC. Just simple create account for Your manager and he can go ahead ;-)
Toddman214
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March 14th, 2016 12:00
Iuisebl, the issue was with the SMPT information. Once i located where to enter that, I was able to have it automatically send out a report. The issue now is that the report is blank, even when i run it manually. Still digging into that part.
szymonilluzion, I may very well take a look into BRM as well. Thank you.