NetBackup™ Deployment Guide for Kubernetes Clusters
- Introduction
- Section I. Configurations
- Prerequisites
- Recommendations and Limitations
- Configurations
- Configuration of key parameters in Cloud Scale deployments
- Tuning touch files
- Setting maximum jobs per client
- Setting maximum jobs per media server
- Enabling intelligent catalog archiving
- Enabling security settings
- Configuring email server
- Reducing catalog storage management
- Configuring zone redundancy
- Enabling client-side deduplication capabilities
- Parameters for logging (fluentbit)
- Section II. Deployment
- Section III. Monitoring and Management
- Monitoring NetBackup
- Monitoring Snapshot Manager
- Monitoring fluentbit
- Monitoring MSDP Scaleout
- Managing NetBackup
- Managing the Load Balancer service
- Managing PostrgreSQL DBaaS
- Managing fluentbit
- Performing catalog backup and recovery
- Section IV. Maintenance
- PostgreSQL DBaaS Maintenance
- Patching mechanism for primary, media servers, fluentbit pods, and postgres pods
- Upgrading
- Cloud Scale Disaster Recovery
- Uninstalling
- Troubleshooting
- Troubleshooting AKS and EKS issues
- View the list of operator resources
- View the list of product resources
- View operator logs
- View primary logs
- Socket connection failure
- Resolving an issue where external IP address is not assigned to a NetBackup server's load balancer services
- Resolving the issue where the NetBackup server pod is not scheduled for long time
- Resolving an issue where the Storage class does not exist
- Resolving an issue where the primary server or media server deployment does not proceed
- Resolving an issue of failed probes
- Resolving token issues
- Resolving an issue related to insufficient storage
- Resolving an issue related to invalid nodepool
- Resolving a token expiry issue
- Resolve an issue related to KMS database
- Resolve an issue related to pulling an image from the container registry
- Resolving an issue related to recovery of data
- Check primary server status
- Pod status field shows as pending
- Ensure that the container is running the patched image
- Getting EEB information from an image, a running container, or persistent data
- Resolving the certificate error issue in NetBackup operator pod logs
- Pod restart failure due to liveness probe time-out
- NetBackup messaging queue broker take more time to start
- Host mapping conflict in NetBackup
- Issue with capacity licensing reporting which takes longer time
- Local connection is getting treated as insecure connection
- Primary pod is in pending state for a long duration
- Backing up data from Primary server's /mnt/nbdata/ directory fails with primary server as a client
- Storage server not supporting Instant Access capability on Web UI after upgrading NetBackup
- Taint, Toleration, and Node affinity related issues in cpServer
- Operations performed on cpServer in environment.yaml file are not reflected
- Elastic media server related issues
- Failed to register Snapshot Manager with NetBackup
- Post Kubernetes cluster restart, flexsnap-listener pod went into CrashLoopBackoff state or pods were unable to connect to flexsnap-rabbitmq
- Post Kubernetes cluster restart, issues observed in case of containerized Postgres deployment
- Request router logs
- Issues with NBPEM/NBJM
- Issues with logging feature for Cloud Scale
- The flexsnap-listener pod is unable to communicate with RabbitMQ
- Troubleshooting AKS-specific issues
- Troubleshooting EKS-specific issues
- Troubleshooting issue for bootstrapper pod
- Troubleshooting AKS and EKS issues
- Appendix A. CR template
- Appendix B. MSDP Scaleout
- About MSDP Scaleout
- Prerequisites for MSDP Scaleout (AKS\EKS)
- Limitations in MSDP Scaleout
- MSDP Scaleout configuration
- Installing the docker images and binaries for MSDP Scaleout (without environment operators or Helm charts)
- Deploying MSDP Scaleout
- Managing MSDP Scaleout
- MSDP Scaleout maintenance
Monitoring with Amazon CloudWatch
You can use Amazon CloudWatch to collect Prometheus metrics to monitor pods in MSDP-X cluster.
To configure Amazon CloudWatch
- Install the CloudWatch agent with Prometheus metrics collection on EKS.
See AWS documentation.
- Install the CloudWatch agent on EKS clusters. Select the EC2 launch type, and download the template YAML file
Prometheus-eks.yaml. - Add the YAML file with the following sample configuration.
# create configmap for prometheus cwagent config apiVersion: v1 data: # cwagent json config cwagentconfig.json: | { "logs": { "metrics_collected": { "prometheus": { "prometheus_config_path": "/etc/prometheusconfig/ prometheus.yaml", "emf_processor": { "metric_declaration": [ { "source_labels": ["job"], "label_matcher": "^msdpoperator-metrics", "dimensions":[ ["ClusterName","NameSpace"] ], "metric_selectors": [ "msdpoperator_reconcile_failed", "msdpoperator_operator_run", "msdpoperator_diskFreeLess5GBEngines_total", "msdpoperator_diskFreeMiBytesInEngine", "msdpoperator_diskFreeLess10GBClusters_total", "msdpoperator_totalDiskFreePercentInCluster", "msdpoperator_diskFreePercentInEngine", "msdpoperator_pvcFreePercentInCluster", "msdpoperator_unhealthyEngines_total", "msdpoperator_createdPods_total" ] } ] } } }, "force_flush_interval": 5 } } kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: prometheus-cwagentconfig namespace: amazon-cloudwatch --- # create configmap for prometheus scrape config apiVersion: v1 data: # prometheus config prometheus.yaml: | global: scrape_interval: 1m scrape_timeout: 10s scrape_configs: - job_name: 'msdpoperator-metrics' scheme: https tls_config: ca_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/ca.crt insecure_skip_verify: true bearer_token_file: /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount /token kubernetes_sd_configs: - role: pod relabel_configs: - source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_prometheus_io _scrape] action: keep regex: true - source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_prometheus_io _path] action: replace target_label: __metrics_path__ regex: (.+) - source_labels: [__address__, __meta_kubernetes_pod_annotation_ prometheus_io_port] action: replace regex: ([^:]+)(?::\d+)?;(\d+) replacement: $1:$2 target_label: __address__ - source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_namespace] action: replace target_label: NameSpace - source_labels: [__meta_kubernetes_pod_name] action: replace target_label: PodName kind: ConfigMap metadata: name: prometheus-config namespace: amazon-cloudwatchTable: Supported Prometheus metrics list in MSDP Scaleout lists the Prometheus metrics that MSDP Scaleout supports.
- Apply the YAML file.
Kubectl apply -f Prometheus-eks.yaml
The default log groups name is
/aws/containerinsights/{cluster_name}/Prometheus. - Create Amazon CloudWatch alarms.
See Using Amazon CloudWatch alarms in AWS documentation.
- In the CloudWatch console, add the related log query. In the navigation pane, select Log Insights.
For example, the free space size of the MSDP scaleout cluster engines is lower than 1 GB in past 5 minutes. Select the log group from the drop-down list, and select the time duration 5m on the time line.
Log query:
fields @timestamp, @message | filter msdpoperator_diskFreeMiBytesInEngine <= 100000 | sort @timestamp desc
If multiple MSDP scaleout clusters are deployed in the same EKS cluster, use the filter to search the results. For example, search the MSDP engines with the free space size lower than 1GB in the namespace sample-cr-namespace.
Log query:
fields @timestamp, @message | filter msdpscalout_ns == "sample-cr-namespace" | filter msdpoperator_diskFreeMiBytesInEngine <= 100000 | sort @timestamp desc
MSDP Scaleout supports the following Prometheus metrics:
Table: Supported Prometheus metrics list in MSDP Scaleout
Metrics | Type | Filters | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
msdpoperator_reconcile_total | Counter | N/A | The total of the reconcile loops msdp-operator run. |
msdpoperator_reconcile_failed | Counter | N/A | The total of the reconcile loops msdp-operator failed to run. |
msdpoperator_operator_run | Counter | N/A | The total of the running operator. |
msdpoperator_diskFree Less5GBEngines_total | Gauge | msdpscalout_ns | The checked number of the engines which have free spaces lower than 5GB. |
msdpoperator_diskFree MiBytesInEngine | Gauge | msdpscalout_ns | The free space of current engine in MiBytes. |
msdpoperator_diskFreeLess 10GBClusters_total | Gauge | msdpscalout_ns | The checked number of the msdpscaleout applications that have free spaces lower than 10GB. |
msdpoperator_totalDiskFree PercentInCluster | Gauge | msdpscalout_ns | The percent of the msdpscaleout applications that have free spaces. For example, 0.95 means 95% |
msdpoperator_diskFree PercentInEngine | Gauge | msdpscalout_ns | The percent of the current engines, which have free spaces. |
msdpoperator_pvcFree PercentInCluster | Gauge | msdpscalout_ns, component | The percent of the used PVC, which have free spaces. |
msdpoperator_unhealthy Engines_total | Gauge | msdpscalout_ns | The total of unhealthy engines. |
msdopoerator_createdPods_total | Gauge | msdpscalout_ns, component | The total of created msdpscaleout pods. |