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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Logging Reference Guide
  3. NetBackup Deduplication logging
  4. Deduplication configuration logs
Veritas NetBackup™ Logging Reference Guide

Deduplication configuration logs

The following are the deduplication configuration logs.

NetBackup Administration Console for Windows wizard logging:

  1. wingui (OID: 263):

    # vxlogcfg -a -p 51216 -o 263 -s DebugLevel=6 -s DiagnosticLevel=6
  2. On the applicable MSDP storage pool, edit install_path\etc\puredisk\spa.cfg and install_path\etc\puredisk\contentrouter.cfg. Specify Logging=full,thread and then restart the spad and spoold services for the changes to take effect.

    • nbsl (OID: 132):

    vxlogcfg -a -p 51216 -o 132 -s DebugLevel=6 -s DiagnosticLevel=6
    • dsm (OID: 178):

    vxlogcfg -a -p 51216 -o 178 -s DebugLevel=6 -s DiagnosticLevel=6
  3. Storage service (turn on STS logging, to log the msdp/pdplugin responses to NetBackup):

    # vxlogcfg -a -p 51216 -o 202 -s DebugLevel=6 -s DiagnosticLevel=6
  4. Remote Monitoring & Management Service:

    # vxlogcfg -a -p 51216 -o 222 -s DebugLevel=6 -s DiagnosticLevel=6
  5. tpcommand (...\volmgr\debug\tpcommand)

  6. storage_directory\log\msdp-config.log

Command-line configuration logging:

  • Administration log for nbdevquery (add storage_server)

  • tpcommand log for tpconfig (add credentials) (...\volmgr\debug\tpcommand)

  • storage_directory\log\pdde-config.log

  • Storage service (turn on STS logging, to log the msdp/pdplugin responses to NetBackup):

    # vxlogcfg -a -p 51216 -o 202 -s DebugLevel=6 -s DiagnosticLevel=6

  • Remote Monitoring and Management Service:

    # vxlogcfg -a -p 51216 -o 222 -s DebugLevel=6 -s DiagnosticLevel=6

  • storage_directory\log\pdde-config.log

NetBackup Administration Console logging:

First, open the Debug.Properties file, in C:\Program Files\VERITAS\Java (for Windows) or /usr/openv/java (for UNIX/Linux). Then, edit the file so the following lines are uncommented (or append the lines if they are not present). If you have a GUI that is running, be sure to restart it.

printcmds=true
printCmdLines=true
debugMask=0x0C000000
debugOn=true

The logs are located under C:\Program Files\VERITAS\NetBackup\logs\user_ops\nbjlogs (Windows) or /opt/openv/netbackup/logs/user_ops/nbjlogs (UNIX/Linux). Ensure that you look at the most recent log.

  • Storage service (turn on STS logging, to log the msdp/pdplugin responses to NetBackup):

    # vxlogcfg -a -p 51216 -o 202 -s DebugLevel=6 -s DiagnosticLevel=6

  • Remote Monitoring and Management Service:

    # vxlogcfg -a -p 51216 -o 222 -s DebugLevel=6 -s DiagnosticLevel=6

  • tpcommand (...\volmgr\debug\tpcommand)

  • storage_directory\log\msdp-config.log

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