BackupExec

Symantec BackupExec job check

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This is a check for Symantec BackupExec for Windows (v10 and v12). It checks correct execution of a specific scheduled job.

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Last Release Date

June 18, 2009

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Owner

Nagios Exchange

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Project Files
FileDescription
check_be.exe

Executable file for Windows

Check_be.txt

Documentation

Project Notes
This executable file must be run on the Windows server where BackupExec is installed. It will process all the BackupExec job history files, find the most recent occurrence of a specified job name, then it will return the current status of this job. It can also return a 'warning' or 'critical' status if the last job found in the history is older than the specified amount of days. See the 'check_be.txt' file for more information.
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Random results on my BE version
by Guillaume, August 31, 2015

Hello, With Backupexe 15 (14.2), I've got random result on the same job. example: - The plugin check the last job of one server, the status is ok. The next check, the status is nok because it "forget" the last job, analyse the job before, and exit with a warning or critical (job too old). - few minutes later, at the next check, the plugin discover again the last job, and the status become ok (recovering). It's unusable in production at now for me :/ thanks for your work


Works for Backup Exec 12.5 too!!
by jlovegrove, December 31, 2014

Installation was a breeze. And it works on BackupExec 12.5!


Backup Exec 2014
by smarechal, June 30, 2014

Hello, Is works well on BE 2014 too. Thanks a lot!


Fix for Too much XML files
by Tetelu, September 30, 2013

Nice script, it does the job. The cause for the error mention by seanmylne is that there are too many xml files in c:program filesveritasbackup execntdata or c:Program FilesSymantecBackup ExecData depends on your version. I've made a bat script to fix the error with "Too much XML files" and set it to run daily. --- @echo off set bakpath=^0x22C:Program^ FilesVERITASBackup^ ExecNTDataBackupbackupxml^0x22 forfiles -p "C:Program FilesVERITASBackup ExecNTData" -s -m BE*.xml /D -20 /C "cmd /c mv @path %bakpath%" --- Note: DataBackupbackupxml - the folders need to be created or changed. /D -20 = 20 is the number of days to keep the files. You could also just delete the files, etc. Hope it helps.


check_be: Too much XML files. Aborted.
by seanmylne, July 31, 2013

Hi, excellent script! It works well for all backup servers running both backexec 2010 and 2012 being monitored that I have set up apart from one :-( I get an error when running the following:- /omd/sites/backupchecks/lib/nagios/plugins/check_nrpe -H x.x.x.x. -c check_be_App4-Apps-i -t 30 check_be: Too much XML files. Aborted. Any ideas on how to solve this issue? thanks Sean


Very nice, more options needed though
by engineerTom, June 30, 2013

Very nice but it needs the ability to specific whether exceptions are a failure or not!


Does not work for all types of job
by tkurek, January 31, 2013

For "Test run" type job it throws critical state while the job finishes successfully.


Does not work with BackupExec 2012
by MichaelJE2, August 31, 2012

It works perfectly with older versions of BackupExec, but when I try to monitor a version of BackupExec 2012 I get the following error: "check_be : No XML file for job name "


check bee command definition is missing
by mesiah, March 31, 2012

Hello Mr. Ottavi, I’ve read your documentation for your script check_be, but I think you forgot to mention the part with the command definition. How should the command definition look like in the commands.cfg. It is not defined on my nagios, but the plugoin check_nrpe exists in my plugin folder Could you please help me out with this. On the remote system nsclient++ is already running Thank you haydar haydar.tekir@pas-net.com


Perfect
by sampinar, February 29, 2012

Works like a charm. BE Server 2010 Thank you.


Great plugin
by smmiller88, September 30, 2011

Does exactly what it says and easy to setup. One caveat would be if there could be an option to use the American date format.


Very good job
by yannix, August 31, 2011

Work prefectly with BE 2010 R2 v13


Exceptions
by zeedjej, March 31, 2011

Very good plugin but as "thezub" says I would also prefer an OK state if the backup completes with exception since there are nothing we can do about our exceptions and it's not considered as errors.


Very good
by VisMon, February 28, 2011

It works good. :) thx!


Nice - but missing an option.
by thezub, November 30, 2010

Hi' I find this plugin very nice, but it gives me a warning, because my job finished with exceptions. But thoose exceptions has to be there, so there is no error, is there a way to fix this? :-) kind regards Jacob


Good
by chaput11, October 31, 2010

Nice plug-in do what it's has to do


Nice work
by remc0, June 30, 2010

Works like a charm. Including a good help file ! Thanks for the nice work.


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