BSys_report Generation

The bsys_report generator script will produce a report of your Bacula configuration and machine set up. The bsys_report may be generated in one of two ways:

BWeb Management Suite (Web GUI)
Command Line (shell prompt)

From BWeb Management Suite

From the BWeb Main Menu, click Configuration -> BWeb Configuration -> Generate BSYS Report (in the right pane of the page).

Note

If you have SELinux set to enforce, note that BWeb cannot generate bsys_report, thus you must use the bsys_report generator presented in the next chapter: Linux Shell Command Line.

From the Linux Shell Command Line

We update this bsys_report script frequently, so please be sure to download a current one from this link:

curl -o bsys_report.tar.gz http://www.baculasystems.com/ml/bsys_report/bsys_report.tar.gz

or if curl is not installed

wget http://www.baculasystems.com/ml/bsys_report/bsys_report.tar.gz

Unpack it:

tar xvzf bsys_report.tar.gz

Set it executable:

chmod +x bsys_report.pl

As either the bacula or root user on your director (DIR) and storage daemon (SD) machines run the command:

./bsys_report.pl

Then submit the generated report files in a support ticket so we can review them and better understand your Bacula environment.

Note: More information about bsys_report can be obtained by running it with the –help command-line switch:

./bsys_report.pl --help

Bsys Report Collector Script

It can be helpful in large Bacula environments to get all the reports needed by the Bacula Systems Support team to help understand your environment and to diagnose issues. Manually uploading the bsys_report.pl script to the Director, and each SD, then running the script on each server and finally downloading the results from each server can be tedious and time consuming.

The get_bsys_reports.py script is a Python script which allows a Bacula administrator to quickly retrieve bsys reports from the Director server and one, several, or all of your Storage servers with one command.

When the script is finished downloading all the bsys reports, they are tarred up into one single file so they may be sent to the Support team easily.

The latest version of this script may be found on Github here: https://github.com/Bacula-Systems

Example output of the script getting a report just from the Director server. Notice that the -m command line option was used to automatically prepend a ticket mask(or a company name) to the name of the tar file, or in this case, the name of the one report retrieved.