Monitoring NetBackup services on a primary or a media server instance
The NetBackup services health monitoring feature allows Flex Appliance to monitor critical NetBackup services on primary and media server instances. If any of the services go down, the appliance attempts to restart them.
The application health is monitored every 60 seconds. You can view the detailed logs at /mnt/nblogs/health-server.log. Note that they are periodically cleaned up to avoid storage space exhaustion.
Note:
Make sure to disable the health monitoring before you start any maintenance activity.
Use the following procedures to enable or disable NetBackup services health monitoring.
To enable NetBackup services health monitoring
- Log in to the instance as the appadmin user.
- Enter the following command to run a precheck before you enable health monitoring:
sudo /opt/veritas/vxapp-manage/health precheck
- Verify that the precheck did not return any errors, then run the following command:
sudo /opt/veritas/vxapp-manage/health enable
- Verify the health monitoring status with the following command:
sudo /opt/veritas/vxapp-manage/health status
To disable NetBackup services health monitoring
- Log in to the instance as the appadmin user.
- Enter the following command:
sudo /opt/veritas/vxapp-manage/health disable
- Verify the health monitoring status with the following command:
sudo /opt/veritas/vxapp-manage/health status