Omniback for the System Administrator

Glossary

Term	Definition
Cell	Contains cell manager, clients and backup devices.
Cell Manager	Data protector control software is installed here and it is where the cell is administered.
Client	System that can be backed up, a system connected to a backup device or both.
Disk Agent (DA)	Software that is installed on the client that allows the client's disk to be backed up.
Internal Data Base (IDB)	Database of files that are backed up, located on the cell manager.
Media Agent (MA)	Software that controls access to a client's backup device.
Session	A session is started when either a backup operation or a restore operation is requested.
Session Manager (SM)	Manages the requested session, controlling the required disk agents and media agents.

Starting/Stopping the Processes

/opt/omni/sbin/omnisv stop

/opt/omni/sbin/omnisv start

Checking Success/Failure of Backups (Viewing Completed Sessions)

Manually Launching Failed Backups

1. Launch Data Protector gui.
2. Select Internal Database from the pull down box located in the top left hand corner.
3. On the left side of the screen, highlight Sessions.
4. All sessions and their status will be listed on the right hand side of the screen.
5. Right mouse click on the failed session that you would like to restart the backups on and select "Restart Failed Objects"

Cleaning a Drive

1. Launch Data Protector gui.
2. Select Devices & Media from the pull down box located in the top left hand corner.
3. On the right hand side select Environment --> Devices --> Library --> Slots
4. On the left hand side select a cleaning tape.
5. Right mouse click on the cleaning tape and select Scan . . .
6. In the dialog box, select the proper tape drive and click Finish

Viewing Currently Running Sessions

1. Launch Data Protector gui.
2. Select Monitor from the pull down box located in the top left hand corner.
3. On the left side of the screen, highlight Current Sessions.
4. All sessions and their status will be listed on the right hand side of the screen.
5. To view the details about a particular session, highlight the session on the left hand side
6. Current statistics of that active session are displayed on the left hand side and are automatically updated.

Aborting a Running Session

1. Launch Data Protector gui.
2. Select Monitor from the pull down box located in the top left hand corner.
3. On the left side of the screen, highlight Current Sessions.
4. All sessions and their status will be listed on the right hand side of the screen.
5. To abort a particular session, right mouse click the session on the left hand side, and select abort.

Health Check Procedure

1. Processes
/opt/omni/sbin/omnisv -status

rds - Raima Database Server process, runs on the cell manager and manages the database
crs - Cell Request Server process runs on the cell manager and controls the backup and restore sessions managers (bsm, rsm)
mmd - Media Management Daemon process runs on the cell manager and controls media management and device operations.
omnitrig - command to trigger backups, usually launched by cron
bsm - backup session manager process
rsm - restore session manager process
vbda - v backup disk agent
vrda - b restore disk agent
bma - backup media agent
rma - restore media agent

2. Tape Pools
/opt/omni/bin/omnimm -list_pools

3. Cell
/opt/omni/sbin/omnidbutil -show_cell_name

Files

Log Files are located in /var/opt/omni/log on HP-UX machines

debug.log --> unexpected conditions
Ob2EventLog.txt --> All data protector notifications are logged here.
inet.log --> All inet requests are logged here - this will reflect communications with clients.
IS_install.log --> Contains details of remote installations.
media.log --> Contains time stamped list of each media that was used and the session that used it.
onmisv.log --> Log of when services were stopped and started, reflecting success/failure status.
tapealrt.log --> Lists tape alerts, such as trying to load in incompatible catridge or problem with drive or library.
lic.log --> Lists licensing alerts
HealthCheck.log --> Log of health check results
cleaning.log --> Log of tape cleaning

License File is located in /etc/opt/omni/cell/lic.dat

Command Line Interface

/opt/omni/lbin/uma -ioctl <device id for tape library>

help
stat d --> shows what the drives are doing
stat s --> shows status of the slots
bye, quit, exit

Reporting

Reports that can be run from the command line or via script:

/opt/omni/bin/omnirpt -report backup_errors -timeframe 24 24

Lists all errors and warnings for the defined time frame.

/opt/omni/bin/omnirpt -report host_statistics -timeframe 24 24

Summary of success, failure and pending by each host for the specified time frame.

/opt/omni/bin/omnirpt -report backup_statistics -timeframe 24 24

Overall summary of success, failure and pending during the specified time frame

/opt/omni/bin/omnirpt -report obj_nobackup

Listing of all objects that do not have a backup - no time frame specified.

/opt/omni/bin/omnirpt -report fs_not_conf

Listing of all filesystems that are not configured for backup

/opt/omni/bin/omnimm -list_pool

List all media pools

Procedure to list media pools for each backup schedule
/etc/opt/omni/datalists

     for schedule in `ls`
        do
        echo $schedule
        cat $schedule|grep "pool"
        echo " "
        echo " "
        done|more

Script for Counting the Tape Drives in Use

/opt/omni/lbin/uma -tty -ioctl /dev/<tape_lib_device> < /opt/scripts/uma_inv.txt > /tmp/tape.txt
grep -c Full /tmp/tape.txt > /opt/scripts/server_tapedrive.txt

This script uses the following text file (uma_inv.txt) to provide the proper uma commands:

stat D
bye

Version

/opt/omni/bin/omnicc -ver
/opt/omni/lbin/bma -ver

Other Commands

/opt/omni/lbin/crs -clshm --> clears shared memory