NetBackup IT Analytics Inventory Reports

Hosts

The Inventory provides an accurate picture of objects discovered by NetBackup IT Analytics within your enterprise. This interface displays asset counts from collected data, and provides access to multiple targeted reports that you can select to display. This summary page shows overview information for all collected Hosts in your datacenter.

Hosts can be collected via a number of different data collection methods. For example, a host may be collected by a Backup Manager collector or by a Capacity Manager Data Collector, where collected data indicates the storage that has been allocated to a host. A host will be listed in the Inventory only if a Data Collector was able to retrieve a host name.

For Virtualization Manager data collection, VMware Tools (VM Tools) must be installed to enable collection of key properties of a VM Guest, such as the IP address, host name, mount points, disk path, available space on VM guest volumes, and guest operating system of the VM. Whenever data collection cannot retrieve a host name, a VM Guest will not be treated as a host in the Inventory and Virtualization Manager reports will not be populated with host details. For example, a host name may not be available in the following situations: the VM may be down, VM Tools may not be installed on the VM Guest, or a VM template may have been collected.

Host Overview information is visualized through the following default report:

See Host Group Overview.

You can also customize reports by configuring the portlets with an attribute selection.