In the course of its consulting work PBnJ Solutions always tries to build its solutions in the form of a general purpose frame-work deployed to fit each customer's needs. In doing so we are committed to making these general purpose tools and frame-works available to the public under as free and open a license as our customers allow.

Currently there are two areas in which tools are published:

• Veritas/Symantec Netbackup Management
• VoIP

The first of these frame-works to be released in this fashion consisted of a set of PERL modules collectively called NBU. They are used to query and manipulate a Veritas NetBackup environment. Several useful sample scripts are included as well. For example:

• history.pl
  A script that lists the backup history for a given NetBackup client.
• js.pl
  Patterned after the Unix standard "ps", js.pl lists the currently running NetBackup jobs and optionally the completed ones as well.