NetBackup Activity Monitor

At my work during project Go Live! sessions I am often asked for the status of the scheduled backup which end early in the morning on weekends. I hate to wake up early on weekends so this is a nice little thing I do to achieve the task while I am sleeping. 

I found neat little perl script which uses the following two tools from netbackup to give a nicely formatted output in email. The tools are bpdbjobs which lists the list of jobs performed and bperror which gives you the status of the job. 

Click here for the original post and script. 

Now once you have the script which sends an email, all I have to do is set an at job to execute the script at the time the user wants the status of the backup.