Discovery of Veritas NetBackup Appliances

[adamtrent]

Hi,

Has anyone managed to discover NetBackup appliances before?

We have a requirement to discover them for our CMDB but I'm drawing a blank.

Thanks,

Adam

[Rahul Priyadars]

My bad - i saw this----> Has anyone managed to discover NetBackup appliances before?

Mistaken Netbackup with NetApp.

Regards

RP

[H Y1]

For those who are able to configure discovery on NetBackup using SNMP, may I know which SNMP version you are using? 

I've been working on this recently, and these are my observation so far. 

• No luck with SNMPv3 with authentication issue. 
• For SNMPv2c, the NetBackup only accepts (or passed authentication) when the community string is set to public. 

Also, I've heard that Veritas does not recommend to enable snmpd on the appliances, may I know if this is true?

[doug_schulze]

I havent come across needing to discover these devices , but perhaps their API might be of service.

https://sort.veritas.com/public/documents/nbu/8.3/windowsandunix/productguides/html/storage-api/

[H Y1]

Thanks @doug_schulze for your information. I'm very new to this Rest API concept. How can I use this NetBackup Storage API to create a CI for the appliances? I know in ServiceNow document there is a DiscoveryAPI documentation. But how can I make use for both APIs for the discovery? 

Is there any documentation on that?