There are 3 areas with NSM. DevSvr, GuiSvr and HaSvr. The following files and paths are based on NSM 2008. Below shows the main path structure (Redhat) and what each Server (Svr) does.
/usr/netscreen/DevSvr/ – DevSvr – Logging and the NSM database
/usr/netscreen/GuiSvr/ – GuiSvr – NSM GUI
/usr/netscreen/HaSvr/ – HaSvr – Backups and High Availability.
DevSvr
/usr/netscreen/DevSvr/var/devSvr.cfg – DevSvr config file
/usr/netscreen/DevSvr/var/logs – NSM Database logs
/usr/netscreen/DevSvr/var/errorLog/ – Error Logs
/usr/netscreen/DevSvr/utils/ – utilities
GuiSvr
/usr/netscreen/GuiSvr/var/guiSvr.cfg – GuiSvr config file
/usr/netscreen/GuiSvr/var/errorLog/ – Error Logs
/usr/netscreen/GuiSvr/var/xdb – Database files (when in directory you can use `du -h –max-depth=1` to determine the if the DB is growing)
HaSvr
/usr/netscreen/HaSvr/var/haSvr.cfg – Ha config file
/usr/netscreen/HaSvr/var/errorLog/ – error log directory
/usr/netscreen/HaSvr/utils/haStatus – show HA status
/usr/netscreen/HaSvr/utils/ – Ha utilities
/usr/netscreen/HaSvr/bin/.haDoLocal.result – Contains the syntax used to perform the local daily backup.
/usr/netscreen/HaSvr/bin/.backupDoLocal.result – Rsync errors. The file is over written each time a back is performed.
/usr/netscreen/HaSvr/bin/.backupDoLocal.remote – Same as above but for remote backup
Misc
/var/netscreen/dbbackup/exclude.rsync – exclude files from the backup.
/etc/init.d/guisvr version – outputs NSM Version
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