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Wondering if legato networker can use page as a notify, not
just email. According to the doc (V6.1.2), no.

Has anyone got it working by some means only using Legato
on Solaris? (that is, not involving any pd (public-domain)
freeware like BB - using freeware here is verboten)

Semi-OT: Can Veritas NetBackup do paging notifies?

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Just to clarify, asking about if Legato can do paging notify is for
detecting serious backup troubles over long weekends (or 24Dec to 29Dec!)

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In regard to: [Networker] Can NetWorker send a page as a notify?, Winslowe...:

Has anyone got it working by some means only using Legato
on Solaris? (that is, not involving any pd (public-domain)
freeware like BB - using freeware here is verboten)

Your Solaris box includes sendmail and a mail client (like mailx).
Your paging service very likely provides either a mail-to-pager
gateway or a web-to-pager gateway. If that's the case, it should
be pretty simple to use just vendor-supplied tools to send a page.

So, the answer really depends on what your pager/cell-phone service
provides.

Tim
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Information Technology Services (701) 231-1076 (Voice)
Room 242-J6, IACC Building (701) 231-8541 (Fax)
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Hi

You can modify the 'Action' field of a NetWorker notification, and run
whatever program you'd like. Many NetWorker administrators (me, included)
modify the 'Savegroup completion' notification to email the savegroup log.
You could, instead, have the notification invoke a program or a script to
send a page.

That said, I've not fiddled with paging; others may be able to add their
experience.

tl

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From: Legato NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER < at > LISTMAIL.TEMPLE.EDU] On
Behalf Of Winslowe Lacesso
Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 3:45 PM
To: NETWORKER < at > LISTMAIL.TEMPLE.EDU
Subject: [Networker] Can NetWorker send a page as a notify?

Wondering if legato networker can use page as a notify, not
just email. According to the doc (V6.1.2), no.

Has anyone got it working by some means only using Legato
on Solaris? (that is, not involving any pd (public-domain)
freeware like BB - using freeware here is verboten)

Semi-OT: Can Veritas NetBackup do paging notifies?

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On Tue, 4 Jan 2005, Winslowe Lacesso wrote:

Just to clarify, asking about if Legato can do paging notify is for
detecting serious backup troubles over long weekends (or 24Dec to 29Dec!)

NetWorker does not have that capability built in, but if you
run a system monitoring package such as Big Brother which can
monitor your NetWorker server for specific events, then you
can set up your monitoring software to receive NetWorker events
and then your monitoring software can trigger paging events.

This is what we do here and it works nicely. The trick is to
get NetWorker to talk to your system monitoring software. We
do that by using the notification field in each NetWorker client
entry to email the savegroup notifications to our Big Brother
server, then our Big Brother server spawns a page to our paging
server if any errors or alerts are found.

I mention Big Brother because its what we use here, but other
packages such as IBM's Tivoli can presumably be used to do
something similar.

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What I did on our environment, I setup a client in GroupWise to receive
just the message from Networker and created 'rules'.
If the message received from Networker contains any of these word"

- critical or waiting for tape
- tape failure
- cannot mount
- tape drive failure/error

Groupwise will then send a page to our after hour phone support and the
Tech. assigned will then check Networker for any problem or issues.

Regards,

Librado Pamintuan
Technical Support Analyst II
Information Systems Dep.
Operations Group
City of Regina

Phone: (306) 777-7573
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Wondering if legato networker can use page as a notify, not
just email. According to the doc (V6.1.2), no.

Has anyone got it working by some means only using Legato
on Solaris? (that is, not involving any pd (public-domain)
freeware like BB - using freeware here is verboten)

Semi-OT: Can Veritas NetBackup do paging notifies?

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Well, you are correct, you cannot page from NetWorker.
But, NetWorker use customizable notification actions.
If you edit the notification you want (eg savegrp completion) and
replace mail/sendmail by a script that can handle STDIN (for getting
status) and paging, then it will work like a charm.

HTH,

Thierry

Wondering if legato networker can use page as a notify, not
just email. According to the doc (V6.1.2), no.

Has anyone got it working by some means only using Legato
on Solaris? (that is, not involving any pd (public-domain)
freeware like BB - using freeware here is verboten)

Semi-OT: Can Veritas NetBackup do paging notifies?

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I reckon it can.. But you would need a SNMP module for doing that. If
your SNMP system can handle paging, then Legato can as well.

Rgds, Ram.

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Sent: 05 January 2005 11:22
To: NETWORKER < at > LISTMAIL.TEMPLE.EDU
Subject: Re: [Networker] Can NetWorker send a page as a notify?

Well, you are correct, you cannot page from NetWorker.
But, NetWorker use customizable notification actions.
If you edit the notification you want (eg savegrp completion) and
replace mail/sendmail by a script that can handle STDIN (for getting
status) and paging, then it will work like a charm.

HTH,

Thierry

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Qpage could, ah, be thought of as a commercial product:
there's $10/month option. (I assume Exxon can afford that.)

Once you've got qpage up and intregated with sendmail ,
then have NetWorker notifications emailed to an alias that'll
send the email and send page(s).

I've used that setup for pages for tape mount requests and
device disabled notifications for years.

I also have scripts for amount of free tape space and
number/size of backups since, eg, 2300 last night. They are
Nagios plugins, but could easily be, ah, (re)written from
scratch as in-house point-solution monitoring thingies.

steve
- - -
systems & network guy
high energy physics
university of wisconsin

[1] http://www.qpage.com/
[2] http://www.nagios.org/

---- Original Message ----
From: Winslowe Lacesso
Wondering if legato networker can use page as a notify, not
just email. According to the doc (V6.1.2), no.

Has anyone got it working by some means only using Legato
on Solaris? (that is, not involving any pd (public-domain)
freeware like BB - using freeware here is verboten)

Semi-OT: Can Veritas NetBackup do paging notifies?

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If you can email, you can likely send the email to a pager address for many
paging systems without any further software other than the already installed
email system.

James Rohrich
UOP LLC
25 E. Algonquin Rd.
Des Plaines, Illinois 60016
Tel: (847) 391-3958
james.rohrich < at > uop.com


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Subject: Re: [Networker] Can NetWorker send a page as a notify?


Qpage could, ah, be thought of as a commercial product:
there's $10/month option. (I assume Exxon can afford that.)

Once you've got qpage up and intregated with sendmail ,
then have NetWorker notifications emailed to an alias that'll send the email
and send page(s).

I've used that setup for pages for tape mount requests and device disabled
notifications for years.

I also have scripts for amount of free tape space and number/size of backups
since, eg, 2300 last night. They are Nagios plugins, but could easily be,
ah, (re)written from scratch as in-house point-solution monitoring thingies.

steve
- - -
systems & network guy
high energy physics
university of wisconsin

[1] http://www.qpage.com/
[2] http://www.nagios.org/

---- Original Message ----
From: Winslowe Lacesso
Wondering if legato networker can use page as a notify, not > just
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some means only using Legato > on Solaris? (that is, not involving any pd
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