Activity Monitoring; Reports And Logs; Operational Reports - VERITAS NetBackup White Paper

Activity Monitoring

The VERITAS NetBackup Activity Monitor allows administrators to monitor progress and status of backup and archive jobs.
Figure 35 shows the job window with statistics about a selected job. Job control is also provided in that the administrator
can kill jobs, which is useful in correcting problem situations, such as when a job is hung or too many jobs are in the system.
In some instances, it may be desirable to produce a report about current and completed jobs without using the Job Monitor
interface. The administrator can do this by executing a command from the system prompt or from a script.
Figure 35: Activity monitor window.

Reports and Logs

VERITAS NetBackup provides many standard reports and logs to verify the completion of backup operations. In addition,
users and administrators can set up additional logs if a site requires them.
VERITAS NetBackup can also be configured to notify users and administrators via electronic mail of an operation's success or
failure.

Operational Reports

The administrator has online access to many operational reports through the administrator interfaces. A Backup Status
Report provides status and error information on backups completed within a particular time period. The Client Backup
Report gives details on each client backup operation. A Log Entry Report lists all activities that occurred during a specified
time period. The subset of log entries that indicate problems appears in the Problems Report. Also available to the
administrator are various media reports, such as which images are on the media.
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