NetBackup IT Analytics User Guide
- Introduction
- Understand the Portal
- About the Admin tab
- Explore your inventory
- Hierarchy toolbar to organize your data
- Show objects
- Use attributes to organize your data
- Pin reports - saving reports with inventory objects
- Assign attributes in the inventory list view
- Get acquainted with reports
- About badging
- Generate and maintain reports
- Select Report Scope
- Group hosts by attributes
- Search for hosts in the report Scope Selector
- Backup Manager advanced scope selector settings
- Solution reports scope selector settings
- Units of Measure in Reports
- Customize report filter logic
- Sort columns in reports
- Convert tabular report to chart
- Distribute, share, schedule, and alert
- Scheduling Exported Reports and Dashboards
- Organize reports
- Work with the dynamic template designer
- Dynamic Template Designer Quick Start
- Converting to a Homogeneous, Product-Specific Template
- Dynamic Template Function Configurations
- Create Fields with the Field Builder
- Scope Selector Component - Custom Filter
- Configure a Bar Chart Dynamic Template
- Steps to Create a Bar Chart Dynamic Template
- Configure an Area/Stacked Area Chart Dynamic Template
- Line Charts for Performance Metrics
- Line Chart Field Requirements
- One Object Per Line Chart, One or More Metrics Per Chart
- Multiple Objects Per Line Chart, One Metric Per Chart
- Example of a Stacked Bar Chart Dynamic Template
- Create a Sparkline Chart in a Tabular Dynamic Template
- Adding or Editing Methods
- Validate and Save a Method
- Work with the SQL template designer
- Database Published Views
- Create a SQL Template
- Configure SQL Template Scope Selector Components
- Sample SQL Queries
- Configure SQL Template Scope Selector Components
- Format the SQL Template Output
- Configure a Table in the SQL Template Designer
- Advanced SQL Report Template Options
- Export/Import SQL Templates
- Pipelined functions for report query building
- APTlistOfDates
- aptStringConcat
- getServerAttributeValue
- getObjectAttributeValue
- getChildServerGroupContextById
- getServerGroupContextById
- secsToHoursMinSecs
- APTgetTapeDriveStatusName
- getFullPathname
- listJobSummaryAfterRestart
- listJobSummaryAfterRestartNBW
- listJobSummaryAfterRestart for NetWorker Backup Jobs
- listOfBackupWindowDates
- listChargebackCatByVOLSDetail
- listChargebackCatByNcVolDetail
- listChargebackCatByFSDetail (for HNAS)
- listChargebackCatByFSDetail (for EMC Isilon)
- listChargebackByLUNSummary
- listChargebackByLUNDetail
- listChargebackCatByLUNSummary
- listChargebackCatByLUNDetail
- Alert configuration
- Manage hosts, backup servers, and host groups
- Manage attributes and objects
- Provide Portal access and user privileges
- Setting / Resetting passwords
- Managing user group home pages (Administrator)
- Configure master schedules and backup windows
- Add, edit, and move policies
- Add/Edit a threshold policy
- Capacity Chargeback policy types
- Solutions administration
- Manage and monitor data collection
- About data collection tasks
- Add/Edit data collectors
- Review collectors and collection status
- Upgrade Data Collectors
- Work with Capacity Manager host data collection
- Host Access Privileges, Sudo Commands, Ports, and WMI Proxy Requirements
- Host access requirements
- Manage credentials
- Configure host discovery policies to populate the host discovery and collection view
- Discovery processes
- Validate host connectivity
- Search and export in host discovery and collection
- Propagate probe settings: Copy probes, paste probes
- Discovery policies for Veritas NetBackup
- About Discovery types
- View and manage system notifications
- Customize with advanced parameters
- Use cases for advanced parameters
- Access control advanced parameters
- General Data Collection advanced parameters
- Cloud data collection advanced parameters
- Host discovery and collection advanced parameters
- Backup Manager advanced parameters
- Capacity Manager advanced parameters
- File Analytics advanced parameters
- Virtualization Manager advanced parameters
- Manage your Portal environment
- Analyze files
- Troubleshoot the Portal
- Retrieving log files
- Debug
- Attribute inheritance overrides
- Understanding report data caching
Identifying Inactive Clients (For Veritas NetBackup)
Note:
Beginning with release version 10.1, the host groups mentioned in this section are no longer automatically created. For legacy systems, if these host groups are no longer desired, a serverGroupCleanup utility can be used to re-locate the clients and then delete the system-generated group. See the System Administrator Guide.
There are two types of inactive clients, and in both cases these clients are not being backed up, maybe intentionally or unintentionally:
Clients Not in Policy are not part of a policy at the time that a new Data Collector was added. Often these clients are resolved at the time of installation.
Inactive Policy Clients were once part of a policy, but are not anymore.
To identify inactive clients
- Navigate to Inventory.
- Activate the Host Group view.
- Select the Veritas NetBackup host group.
- Select the Clients Not in Policy host group. If you notice that there are clients in this host group, either assign them to a policy--if they should be backed up--or delete them. In some cases, you might determine that a client need not be backed up and should be removed. In this case, refer to Deleting Hosts.
See Deleting Hosts.
- Select the Inactive Policy Clients host group. If you notice that there are many clients in the Inactive Policy Clients host group and all these clients are supposed to be backed up by the same backup server, you probably accidently disabled the policy and need to enable it. In some cases, you might determine that a client does not need to be backed up, and should be removed. In this case, refer to Deleting Hosts.
See Deleting Hosts.
- Give the Data Collector time to refresh its list of clients. Every night the Data Collector queries your backup servers for a list of clients and assigns clients to their appropriate host groups.