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  2. Cohesity Cloud Scale Technology Manual Deployment Guide for Kubernetes Clusters
  3. Section III. Monitoring and Management
  4. Monitoring NetBackup
  5. Monitoring Primary/Media server CRs
Cohesity Cloud Scale Technology Manual Deployment Guide for Kubernetes Clusters

Monitoring Primary/Media server CRs

You can view the status and other details of the primary server and media server CRs using the following commands:

  • kubectl get <PrimaryServer/MediaServer> -n <namespace> or

  • kubectl describe <PrimaryServer/MediaServer> <CR name> -n <namespace>

Following table describes the primary server CR and media server CR status fields:

Table: Primary server and media server CR status fields

Section

Field / Value

Description

Primary Server Details

Only one hostname and IP address for the respective primary server.

Host Name

Name of the primary server that should be used to access the web UI.

IP

IP address to access the primary server.

Version

This indicates that the NetBackup primary server version is installed.

Media Server Details

Number of hostname and IP address is equal to the replica count mentioned CR spec.

Host Name

Name of the media server.

Version

This indicates that the NetBackup media server version is installed.

Attributes

Resource Name

Statefulset name of the respective server.

 

Primary/Media server name

Name of the primary server or media server deployed.

 

Config checker status

Indicates the status of the config checker as passed, failed, or skipped. For more information on the Config-Checker, See How does the Config-Checker utility work.

 

SHA Fingerprint

Represents the SHA key fingerprint of the NetBackup primary server.

Note:

SHAFingerprint represents the SHA256 CA certificate fingerprint of the primary server.

ElasticityAttributes

 

Describes the attributes associated with the media server autoscaler. For more information on the elasticity attributes, See Elastic media server.

 

Error Details

Code

A code assigned to an error encountered during the CR deployment or during the config-check operation. For more information on the error, refer to the NetBackup Status Code Reference Guide.

 

Message

Message that describes the respective error code.

 

State

Success /Paused /Failed /Running

Current state of the custom resource, from one of the following:

  • Success: Indicates that the deployment of Primary/Media Custom Resource (CR) is successful. However, this does not mean that the installation of the NetBackup primary/media servers is successful. The primary or media server StatefulSets and/or the pods might or might not be in a ready state, irrespective of that the Primary/Media CR state will show as Success.

  • Paused: Indicates that the reconciler is in paused state and deployment of a CR is paused.

  • Failed: Indicates that the deployment of a CR failed with errors. However this does not mean failed installation of the NetBackup Server. Errors can be analyzed from the Operator logs or CR describe.

  • Running: Indicates that the CR deployment is in progress and the resources are getting created.

 

Events

INIT/FAILOVER/UPGRADE

The events like INIT, FAILOVER and UPGRADE are logged in here.

The details of these events can also be added.

 

Services

  • Name string

  • State string

  • Ready string

  • ImageTag string

  • Service string

This field indicates the status of the pods, their running state, image tag used and name of the service.

 

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