What is Veritas NetBackup KM?

Veritas NetBackup KM is a standard Knowledge Module (KM) that enables you to monitor your Veritas NetBackup infrastructure in BMC TrueSight Operations Management or BMC Helix Operations Management.

Technically, Veritas NetBackup KM is composed of:

• A KM for PATROL:

  • Compatible with Linux, Windows, Solaris, HP-UX, and IBM AIX
  • Deployable and configurable through TrueSight/Helix CMA
  • Configurable through Monitoring Studio X Web UI

• A Component for TrueSight Presentation Server (TSPS)

  • Enables the configuration of Veritas NetBackup KM and facilitates the interaction with the PATROL Agent through the user-friendly Monitoring Studio X Web interface.

There are two possible options to setup Veritas NetBackup KM and the PATROL Agent:

• Remote Monitoring: Install the KM and the Agent on a dedicated managed node that monitors one or more Veritas NetBackup master and media servers remotely.
• Local Monitoring: Install the KM and the Agent on the Veritas NetBackup master and media servers directly to monitor locally.

Standard KM for PATROL

Veritas NetBackup KM monitors every component of Veritas NetBackup to ensure it runs efficiently 24 hours a day:

• Clients: status
• Daemons: processor utilization, memory size, number of processes found, and status
• Databases: file and file system space utilization and status
• Disk Storage and Disk/Volume Pools: space utilization, status and performance
• Jobs: status, duration, data throughput and time elapsed since last backup, comparative statistics
• Log files: size, content, growth rate, file system space utilization
• Master/Media Server: status of local and remote nodes
• Mounts Requests: any manual mount request elapsed time and status
• Policies && Policy Clients: elapsed backup time, size, duration, throughput of full and incremental backups
• Robotic Libraries and Drives: library and drive status, throughput and loaded media by category
• Volume Pools: capacity and count

As a KM for PATROL, Veritas NetBackup KM runs natively on the BMC PATROL Agent. The monitored objects and metrics and their configuration are automatically integrated into the various BMC consoles:

• TrueSight Operations Management or Helix Operations Management
• TrueSight Central Monitoring Administration (CMA)
• TrueSight Infrastructure Management
• PATROL Console (Classic)
• PATROL Central - Windows Edition
• PATROL Central - Web Edition

Since Veritas NetBackup KM,

• detects backup and restore errors
• helps prevent backup system failures
• detects disk or tape space shortages
• helps identify bottlenecks and optimize the backup policies

it ensures maximum backup application availability and maximum data protection.