[hobbit] Monitoring Backups

[Phil Wild]

OK

Gotcha! I use Netbackup and have one master server controlling all the
backups across many sites. This way we have a single console that shows the
complete schedule and one point to monitor....



Phil


On 27/02/2008, Joshua Johnson <joshua at stenhouseconsulting.com> wrote:
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>  Phil,
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> I think we have a misunderstanding? We have many remote sites, each with a
> server running Retrospect to perform backups. BBWin is not running on the
> servers at these remote sites. Retrospect simply sends emails when the
> backups complete. Retrospect does have the ability to call a script when a
> backup completes but, that would require installing BBWin on all the remote
> servers and creating/configuring the Retrospect script, etc. To avoid doing
> that we want to trigger hobbit alerts based on the emails we are already
> receiving from Retrospect on the remote servers.
>
>
>
> Josh
>
>
>
> *From:* Phil Wild [mailto:philwild at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 26, 2008 10:25 PM
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Monitoring Backups
>
>
>
> Sorry, I wasn't clear... I was talking about the server.
>
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> Can the server run a script att he completion of every backup job?
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>
>
> Cheers
>
>
>
> Phil
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>
>
> On 27/02/2008, *Joshua Johnson* <joshua at stenhouseconsulting.com> wrote:
>
> Phil,
>
>
>
> We are using Retrospect and yes it does provide the functionality you are
> talking about however, we don't want to install the BBWin client on all of
> these systems. That is why we are going the email route, it doesn't require
> any changes to the clients.
>
>
>
> Josh
>
>
>
> *From:* Phil Wild [mailto:philwild at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* Tuesday, February 26, 2008 7:16 PM
>
>
> *To:* hobbit at hswn.dk
> *Subject:* Re: [hobbit] Monitoring Backups
>
>
>
> Can I ask what backup software you are using?
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>
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> Rather than processing the email, you may be able to get into the source
> of the email. If on backup completion you can run a script and you have
> access to the backup status and error message as variables, you would
> probably be better off writing a script here that calls bb to send a message
> up.
>
>
>
> Phil
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>
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> On 27/02/2008, *Joshua Johnson* <joshua at stenhouseconsulting.com> wrote:
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> Ralph,
>
> See I knew there was a reason I sent that message. Your 2 cents is way
> better than what I had!! Why didn't I think of this? It is so much simpler.
> To make it easier I will have the Exchange server just forward to Sendmail
> so I don't have to change the current setup and then we still get the backup
> notification emails. Thank you!
>
> Joshua Johnson
> Consultant
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralph Mitchell [mailto:ralphmitchell at gmail.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2008 5:27 PM
> To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Monitoring Backups
>
> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 3:45 PM, Joshua Johnson
> <joshua at stenhouseconsulting.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > 2)      Have the Exchange server script send files (ftp or SMB) to the
> > Hobbit server. These files will then be processed by a server side
> script
> > which could use bbhostgrep to check the files and send the alerts into
> > Hobbit.
>
> My $0.02 - is there a compelling reason not to just send email to your
> Hobbit server??  I've  done it that way when it wasn't possible to
> deliver reports via hobbit/bb protocol over port 1984.
>
> The way it works is, my (old, decrepit, Redhat 7.2) Hobbit server is
> running sendmail.  In /etc/aliases I have:
>
>     msgman:   "| /usr/local/sbin/msgman"
>
> which allows me to send email to msgman at hobbit.myserver.com.  Any
> incoming email for that address is piped through the msgman script,
> which could be written in bash, perl, C, python, &c.  What comes
> through the pipe via stdin is a bunch of headers, including From, To,
> Date & Subject, then a blank line, then the body of the message.
> Here's one way to break out the message into useful bits:
>
>     #!/bin/ksh
>
>     # First line is "From sender date"
>     read junk sender date
>
>     while read token string
>     do
>        # Detect a blank line
>       if [ "X$token$string" == "X" ]; then
>         break;
>       fi
>
>       # extract the Subject line
>       if [ "X$token" == "XSubject:" ]; then
>         subject=$string
>       fi
>     done
>
>     # pick up first line in body
>     read text
>
>     while read line
>     do
>       # pick up any other body lines
>       text="$text\n$line"
>     done
>
>     # Do "stuff" to discover the system name, the test name, the
> color and some message
>     # ...
>
>     LINE="status $SYSTEM.$TEST $COLOR `date`
>     $MESSAGE"
>
>     /home/hobbit/server/bin/bb 0.0.0.0 "$LINE"
>
> I don't think you'd need to load the hobbit environment (I've got this
> running in an old BB hierarchy) just to deliver the report.
>
> It's not exactly rocket science, but I then I already had email
> working and didn't want to have to maintain ftp/scp/smb across the
> company network.  I imagine there's a way for Postfix (and other
> MTA's) to deliver to a pipe, but maybe not - I simply haven't tried
> because it ain't broke...  :)
>
> Ralph Mitchell
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