What Reports Are Available and What Do They Tell?

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Monitoring without the GUI

At times, you may want to know the status of the backups or other jobs and you don't have access to a graphic terminal or are working remotely. You can still get information and monitor both the jobs activity and the device status. You can monitor the jobs by using the command-line interface (CLI) /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/admincmd/bpdbjobs on a UNIX system or C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\bpdbjobs.exe on a Windows system. This command allows you to see what is going on in the job queue. You can either issue the CLI without options, or you can add options to further refine the output. The output on a Windows system is shown in Figure 6.11.

You can also find out what daemons are running on your UNIX master by issuing this command: /usr/openv/netbackup/bin/bpps -a. This returns a list of all the NetBackup and Media Manager daemons and processes that are running on the system. A typical output is shown in Figure 6.12.

If you want to know the status of the physical devices without using a GUI, you could use the following for UNIX and NT/2000, respectively:

 /usr/openv/volmgr/bin/vmoprcmd -d  C:\Program Files\VERITAS\Volmgr\bin\vmoprcmd 

Figure 6.11: Monitoring jobs from the command-line interface on a Windows system.

Figure 6.12: Display UNIX daemons from command-line interface.

This will give you an output similar to that shown in Figure 6.13.

Figure 6.13: Drive status output from the command-line interface.

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