Now, some might say that I’m not the smartest card in the deck for what I’m about to note, but sometimes I don’t notice new commands when they appear in NetWorker, particularly if I skimmed through release notes.<\/p>\n
I was pleasantly surprised today to find that a new command had slipped in at some point<\/em> called “jbverify”. I can immediately see it however entering my stable of must-use commands, particularly in a support environment.<\/p>\n To quote the man page, jbverify<\/em>:<\/p>\n [V]erifies the devices defined in the NetWorker database, making sure that each one of them is configured properly by checking them for accessibility and usability.<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n This is the sort of diagnostic tool that support people live for, and sites suddenly experiencing strange jukebox issues should think of as a matter of course.<\/p>\n When run on my lab server this afternoon, I got the following badly formatted but still very useful output:<\/p>\n If you’ve come from NetBackup, the nature of this program is somewhat reminsicent of the robtest<\/em> utility. 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jbverify\n14866:jbverify:\n Jbverify is running on host nox, Linux 2.6.18-128.1.6.el5\n\n14912:jbverify:\n Processing stand-alone devices...\n\n14913:jbverify:\n Processing \/d\/nsr\/02\/_AF_readonly\n14915:jbverify:\n Finished processing \/d\/nsr\/02\/_AF_readonly\n\n14913:jbverify:\n Processing \/d\/nsr\/idata\/backup\/_AF_readonly\n14915:jbverify:\n Finished processing \/d\/nsr\/idata\/backup\/_AF_readonly\n\n14913:jbverify:\n Processing \/d\/nsr\/01\/_AF_readonly\n14915:jbverify:\n Finished processing \/d\/nsr\/01\/_AF_readonly\n\n14913:jbverify:\n Processing \/d\/nsr\/idata\/backup\n14915:jbverify:\n Finished processing \/d\/nsr\/idata\/backup\n\n14913:jbverify:\n Processing \/d\/nsr\/idata\/clone\/_AF_readonly\n14915:jbverify:\n Finished processing \/d\/nsr\/idata\/clone\/_AF_readonly\n\n14913:jbverify:\n Processing \/d\/nsr\/01\n14915:jbverify:\n Finished processing \/d\/nsr\/01\n\n14913:jbverify:\n Processing \/d\/nsr\/03\n14915:jbverify:\n Finished processing \/d\/nsr\/03\n\n14913:jbverify:\n Processing \/d\/nsr\/03\/_AF_readonly\n14915:jbverify:\n Finished processing \/d\/nsr\/03\/_AF_readonly\n\n14913:jbverify:\n Processing \/d\/nsr\/02\n14915:jbverify:\n Finished processing \/d\/nsr\/02\n\n14913:jbverify:\n Processing \/d\/nsr\/idata\/clone\n14915:jbverify:\n Finished processing \/d\/nsr\/idata\/clone\n\n14917:jbverify:\n Finished processing stand-alone devices.\n\n14918:jbverify:\n Processing jukebox devices...\n\n14920:jbverify:\n Processing jukebox LTO1_LIB:\n\n14733:jbverify:\n Testing drive 1 (\/dev\/nst0) of JB LTO1_LIB\n\n14927:jbverify:\n\n Jukebox LTO1_LIB on nox successfully processed.\n\n14929:jbverify:\n\n Finished processing jukebox devices.\n\n**********************************************************************\n\n Summary report of jbverify\n ======= ====== == ========\n\nHostname Device Handle Blocksize Jukebox Drv No. Status\n-------- ------------- --------- ------- ------- ------\nnox \/d\/nsr\/02\/_AF_readonly 131072 N\/A N\/A Pass\nnox \/d\/nsr\/idata\/backup\/_AF_readonly 131072 N\/A N\/A Pass\nnox \/d\/nsr\/01\/_AF_readonly 131072 N\/A N\/A Pass\nnox \/d\/nsr\/idata\/backup 131072 N\/A N\/A Pass\nnox \/d\/nsr\/idata\/clone\/_AF_readonly 131072 N\/A N\/A Pass\nnox \/d\/nsr\/01 131072 N\/A N\/A Pass\nnox \/d\/nsr\/03 131072 N\/A N\/A Pass\nnox \/d\/nsr\/03\/_AF_readonly 131072 N\/A N\/A Pass\nnox \/d\/nsr\/02 131072 N\/A N\/A Pass\nnox \/d\/nsr\/idata\/clone 131072 N\/A N\/A Pass\nnox \/dev\/nst0 65536 LTO1_LIB 1 Pass\n\n**********************************************************************<\/pre>\n