Monitoring NetBackup services on a NetBackup primary server instance
The NetBackup services health monitoring feature allows Flex Appliance to monitor critical NetBackup services on primary server instances. If any of the services go down, the appliance attempts to restart them.
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.
Enabling 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
Disabling NetBackup services health monitoring
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