Centralt Backupsystem - System för monitoring av backups

Abstract

Consat Data AB manages other companies’ IT environment. For every customer there are backup servers with different softwares. These are responsible for creating backups of the customers’ servers and send reports to the administrators when done. Due to the number of customers and servers the administrators can receive up to 300 reports a day through mail and web interfaces. One administrator must read through all these reports every day which makes the work inefficient. This is what this project tries to solve. The goal of the project was to make Consats work with backups more efficient. This was done by creating a system that fetched backup data and presented this in a web interface. The system was split into two applications, one to handle the web interface and one python application to handle, fetch and read the backup data. While working on the goal the purpose of the project was to discover and examine different methods to fetch, handle and view backup data. The different methods were chosen depending on functionality, popularity and existing documentation. The work resulted in two working prototype applications. The first application is written in Python. The purpose of the application is to fetch mails and backup information to extract backup data. The second application is a web application with Node.JS as a base. It’s purpose is to show the extracted backup data in a webinterface.