Veritas NetBackup™ Virtual Appliance Documentation

Use the show the appliance logs.

Use this command to delete archived log files. Here, Date defines the date until which you want to delete archived log files. LogType is the product name for which you want to delete the archived log files.

The available LogType options are the following:

CoreDump/NetBackup/Puredisk/ALL

Use to view the current log level settings for the following:

Use to set the process log level for specific NetBackup processes.

Where Option is NetBackupUnified, NetBackupLegacy, or MSDP. When you select NetBackupUnified Set or NetBackupUnified SetAll, you must also select either Debug or Diagnostic.

Where Action is Restore, RestoreDefault, Save, Set, SetAll, Show, or ShowAll.

For example, to set this option for NetBackupUnified and set the nbemm process for Debug at a log level of 1, you would enter the following:

ProcessLogLevel NetBackupUnified Set nbemm Debug 1

Use to set a specific log level.

Where Option is one of the following:

Where Level is any number from 0 (lowest logging level) to 10 (highest logging level). When you select NetBackupUnified, you must also select either Debug or Diagnostic.

For example, to set the level for NetBackupUnified Diagnostic to a log level of 2, you would enter the following:

SetLevel NetBackupUnified Diagnostic 2

Use to extract the CIFS and the NFS shares for the logs.

For CIFS, you must map the share using the appliance "admin" user's credentials.

Display debug information from the log files by designating a specific job ID as the criteria by which the information is parsed.

Where job_id is the NetBackup job that you determine you want to view from the debug information.

Display debug information from the log files using time (in minutes) as the criteria by which the information is parsed.

Where minutes_ago is the amount of time, in minutes, used to determine how much of the past debug information to display.

Display debug information from the log files by designating a specific logging module as the criteria by which the information is parsed.

Where module_name is the module from which you want to view log files. You can select from the following modules:

All/CallHome/Common/Config/Database/HWMonitor/Network/Seeding/SelfTest
/Storage/SWUpdate/Commands/CrossHost/Trace/AuthService/TaskService

Upload log files for the appliance to Support. This command creates a .tar file of the logs using the job ID. Use FTP to upload the file to Support.

Where jobid contains the job ID number that is used to collect the logs. The case_num variable is a unique number filed with Support that identifies the customer and their corresponding log files. The format of this number is ###-###-###

Upload the logs based on the default duration. The default duration is four hours. This command creates a .tar file of the logs using the time. Use FTP to upload the file to Support.

Where start is the start date of the log files to send to Support. end is the end date of the log files to send to Support. And case_num is a unique number filed with Support that identifies the customer and their corresponding log files. The format of this number is ###-###-###