HP-UX 11.x and Legato Networker 5.5

James · *nix forums Guru Joined: 09 Jun 2003 Posts: 306

Hello,

I work for a company who uses Legato Networker to backup their HP-UX
systems.

The problem is Legato. It seems that on one particular server, Legato
wants to fail at least once a week. Multiple sites are supported
solely by me, and I have spent many weeks restoring Legato directories
when it crashes or encounters wierd problems, and then updating the
indexes and checking on the settings to make sure nothing has changed
(online and offline notes are kept on the settings for each server).

The thing that makes this difficult is that I am not allowed to install
software such as snort, sudo or tripwire. Furthermore, it seems that
although a limited number of people know the root password (i.e 1-2
people plus myself, as I am root), certain things are happening that
would require the root password. Physical security is not optimal, and
I have to sleep a small number of hours to keep my sanity, otherwise I
would be onsite or connected otherwise all the time.

A recent issue that concerns me is the numbe of times it's primary
daemons disappear from the process table, forciong me to go in and
restart it manually and watch the system. I had written a script to
automatically check and restart the processes, but it didn't work
correctly so it was removed from cron.

No signs of external intrusion are found, so it seems to me it would be
a system issue or internal access to the console for some odd reason to
only kill this application nightly this week.

Here is the script that was written:
#!/bin/sh
outfile="/nsr_up.txt"
touch $outfile
echo "Number of processes on host total: `ps -ef | grep nsr | wc -l`"

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