{"id":301,"date":"2009-04-08T19:38:20","date_gmt":"2009-04-08T09:38:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.wordpress.com\/?p=301"},"modified":"2018-12-12T16:22:26","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T06:22:26","slug":"basics-jbverify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2009\/04\/08\/basics-jbverify\/","title":{"rendered":"Basics – jbverify"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

# 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
If you’ve come from NetBackup, the nature of this program is somewhat reminsicent of the robtest<\/em> utility. I don’t claim EMC are special for having introduced this tool, but I do applaud that it’s there (and lament that I didn’t notice it sooner).<\/p>\n
(One thing to note: after running jbverify<\/em>, make sure you reset your jukebox.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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