Happy Holidays,
I am wondering how to add OSSV W2K3 systems to DFM? Is there somewhere a HOWTO, README, knowledgebase article, chapter in the DFM documentation, .., that describes what the prerequisites are (W2K3, SNMP, NDMP enabled on the windows systems?, ...?) and what the process is to add such systems and then to monitor the OSSV updates? A followuo question would then be, how to send an alarm if OSSV updates fail.
I took a brief look at now.netapp.com, but did not find anything right away.
Any pointer, hint, ideas how to do this?
Cheers --pwo
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Not sure what your question is, but you can add OSSV hosts the Backup tab. At the right most end in "Add a new backup" you should see an icon that takes you to add a new primart host page or you can use this link, replace it with your DFM host name: http://your-DFM-host:8080/dfbm/edit/primary-hosts Normally if an OSSV agent is installed and its on the same subnet as the DFM server, DFM will discover it within a few hours. Make sure you enter a ndmp user name and password when you install OSSV agents.
After the host has been discovered/added, you can then create a new backup relationship or import existing relationships.
BTW, how many OSSV clients do you have?
On 12/29/05, Peter W. Osel pwo@infineon.com wrote:
Happy Holidays,
I am wondering how to add OSSV W2K3 systems to DFM? Is there somewhere a HOWTO, README, knowledgebase article, chapter in the DFM documentation, .., that describes what the prerequisites are (W2K3, SNMP, NDMP enabled on the windows systems?, ...?) and what the process is to add such systems and then to monitor the OSSV updates? A followuo question would then be, how to send an alarm if OSSV updates fail.
I took a brief look at now.netapp.com, but did not find anything right away.
Any pointer, hint, ideas how to do this?
Cheers --pwo
-- Peter W. Osel | pwo@Infineon.COM | pwo@pwo.de | http://pwo.de/ pgp key fingerprint = 79 2D DD 49 C0 AA D8 CF 2C F9 A5 6A BA 37 0E 28
*** Sto Rage© netbacker@gmail.com *** [2005-12-29 14:32:05]: Not sure what your question is, but you can add OSSV hosts the Backup tab. At the right most end in "Add a new backup" you should see an icon that takes you to add a new primart host page or you can use this link, replace it with your DFM host name: http://your-DFM-host:8080/dfbm/edit/primary-hosts
hhmh, that seemed to have worked, however, everything whows up with "no status" in the Backup summary page. On the other hand "snapvault status" on the secondary neartsore show that OSSV is succeeding.
Guess time to call NetApp support and dig a little deeper ...
Normally if an OSSV agent is installed and its on the same subnet as the DFM server, DFM will discover it within a few hours. Make sure you enter a ndmp user name and password when you install OSSV agents.
systems are in different networks :-(
After the host has been discovered/added, you can then create a new backup relationship or import existing relationships.
good hint. reading the helpfile though makes me believe that "importing" means: you disable the snapvault snap sched and snap sched and let then DFM issue the update commands? Not sure if I like this approach - making the snapvault update depend on the availability of DFM ...
BTW, how many OSSV clients do you have?
2 right now, 10 more coming, distribute all over North America, snapvaulting back to San Jose, CA ....
Cheers --pwo
On 12/29/05, Peter W. Osel pwo@infineon.com wrote:
Happy Holidays,
I am wondering how to add OSSV W2K3 systems to DFM? Is there somewhere a HOWTO, README, knowledgebase article, chapter in the DFM documentation, .., that describes what the prerequisites are (W2K3, SNMP, NDMP enabled on the windows systems?, ...?) and what the process is to add such systems and then to monitor the OSSV updates? A followuo question would then be, how to send an alarm if OSSV updates fail.
I took a brief look at now.netapp.com, but did not find anything right away.
Any pointer, hint, ideas how to do this?
Cheers --pwo
-- Peter W. Osel | pwo@Infineon.COM | pwo@pwo.de | http://pwo.de/ pgp key fingerprint = 79 2D DD 49 C0 AA D8 CF 2C F9 A5 6A BA 37 0E 28
On 12/29/05, Peter W. Osel pwo@infineon.com wrote:
*** Sto Rage(c) netbacker@gmail.com *** [2005-12-29 14:32:05]: Not sure what your question is, but you can add OSSV hosts the Backup tab. At the right most end in "Add a new backup" you should see an icon that takes you to add a new primart host page or you can use this link, replace it with your DFM host name: http://your-DFM-host:8080/dfbm/edit/primary-hosts
hhmh, that seemed to have worked, however, everything whows up with "no status" in the Backup summary page. On the other hand "snapvault status" on the secondary neartsore show that OSSV is succeeding.
Yeah, "no status" means the schedule is controlled by the secondary filer and not the DFM server. more on it below
Guess time to call NetApp support and dig a little deeper ...
Normally if an OSSV agent is installed and its on the same subnet as the DFM server, DFM will discover it within a few hours. Make sure you enter a ndmp user name and password when you install OSSV agents.
systems are in different networks :-(
You could add the subnets into DFM, but then it keeps broadcasting/probing every 15 mins or so, looking for new hosts. My network admin is pissed about this "feature" so we turned it off.
After the host has been discovered/added, you can then create a new backup relationship or import existing relationships.
good hint. reading the helpfile though makes me believe that "importing" means: you disable the snapvault snap sched and snap sched and let then DFM issue the update commands? Not sure if I like this approach - making the snapvault update depend on the availability of DFM ...
Yeah, this is my gripe too. Initially I too didn't like the idea of having a windows/unix host control the schedules instead of the secondary filer. Rumor has it that "future" version of DFM will go back to that model. I would be happier if they could at least make DFM schedules more granular instead of on the hour at hourly intervals, i'd prefer to pick a time. As we have 150+ clients, scheduling these to make the best use of the backup window is tough now. Most of the backups finish in the first 10 to 15 minutes, then the filer is idle till the next hour. If it was granular, I could get all my backups done in 3 hours, now they are spread across 10 hours.
BTW, how many OSSV clients do you have?
2 right now, 10 more coming, distribute all over North America, snapvaulting back to San Jose, CA ....
hmm, we have 150 clients (windows and solaris) coming in to Santa Clara, CA from 5 different sites. Next year its going to add more. Moving away from Veritas NBU.
Cheers --pwo
On 12/29/05, Peter W. Osel pwo@infineon.com wrote:
Happy Holidays,
I am wondering how to add OSSV W2K3 systems to DFM? Is there somewhere a HOWTO, README, knowledgebase article, chapter in the DFM documentation, .., that describes what the prerequisites are (W2K3, SNMP, NDMP enabled on the windows systems?, ...?) and what the process is to add such systems and then to monitor the OSSV updates? A followuo question would then be, how to send an alarm if OSSV updates fail.
I took a brief look at now.netapp.com, but did not find anything right away.
Any pointer, hint, ideas how to do this?
Cheers --pwo
-- Peter W. Osel | pwo@Infineon.COM | pwo@pwo.de | http://pwo.de/ pgp key fingerprint = 79 2D DD 49 C0 AA D8 CF 2C F9 A5 6A BA 37 0E 28
*** Sto Rage© netbacker@gmail.com *** [2005-12-31 15:45:01]:
On 12/29/05, Peter W. Osel pwo@infineon.com wrote:
good hint. reading the helpfile though makes me believe that "importing" means: you disable the snapvault snap sched and snap sched and let then DFM issue the update commands? Not sure if I like this approach - making the snapvault update depend on the availability of DFM ...
Yeah, this is my gripe too. Initially I too didn't like the idea of having a windows/unix host control the schedules instead of the secondary filer. Rumor has it that "future" version of DFM will go back to that model. I would be happier if they could at least make DFM schedules more granular instead of on the hour at hourly intervals, i'd prefer to pick a time. As we have 150+ clients, scheduling these to make the best use of the backup window is tough now. Most of the backups finish in the first 10 to 15 minutes, then the filer is idle till the next hour. If it was granular, I could get all my backups done in 3 hours, now they are spread across 10 hours.
I agree, DFM should suppot more flexible scheduling, then you have at least an advantage when scheduling through DFM instead of letting the secondary filer schedule the updates.
If DFM schedules the jobs, it knows when they finish, so why couldn't DFM optimize the scheduling to e.g. always run a certain number of jobs in parallel, i.e. as soon as one job finished, start the next one? Then you could configure a list of jobs that need to get done, a limit of how many jobs should be run in parallel, and DFM does the rest ...
just dreaming at the beginning of a new year ;-)
Happy New Year --pwo
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