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Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Reporting Guide

Last Published: 2018-09-17

Product(s): NetBackup (8.3.0.1, 8.3, 8.2, 8.1.2)

Reporting in OpsCenter
OpsCenter reports
1. Report Templates in OpsCenter
2. About Report Templates descriptions
Custom reports in OpsCenter Analytics
1. Creating a custom report in OpsCenter
  1. About Custom Report Wizard parameters
2. Creating an OpsCenter report using SQL query

Status & Success Rate > Status > Week At A Glance report

This report summarizes activity for a week by symbolically displaying the result of each job for each client under the day of the week. The symbols are the blue (Success) and yellow (Partial Success) men and failures that are denoted by a red "X". This report provides quick and comprehensive verification that all is well in the data protection solution using symbols. A drill-down capability to the job level details (i.e Job ID, Start/End Time, Size etc.) is provided. You can drill down to any server on any day and get the job level detail.

It can be reported on against any view or level within a view along with any of the key backup infrastructure components (backup server, media server) and attributes (policy, policy type, schedule, OS, product, transport type). Filtering is available on all components and attributes. The report provides a visualization of job status for the most current data and how that compares to the previous six days.

This report can be used for automated report generation and email features where different report filters can be used to show specific systems and then that data emailed to the relevant parties once a week. Veritas recommends that you use filters in large environments. This is because the report shows every master server and client by default.

Week at a Glance Report's performance declines as the data to be displayed in the report increases. For example, running a two-month report is slower than running a two-week report.

Note:

The Week at a Glance report displays icons when it is exported or emailed in an HTML format. Earlier in OpsCenter 7.0.x, the Week at a Glance report could not display icons when exported or emailed in an HTML format. This issue has been fixed in OpsCenter 7.1 and later versions.

Figure: Week at a Glance report shows a sample view of the Week at a Glance report.

Figure: Week at a Glance report

This report shows that there were a number of failures and also quickly shows that most of the backups completed successfully. Using this report you can see if backups ran each day of the week and the status of that backup. This report can be scheduled to be emailed or exported weekly which saves a great deal of time.

The following are details associated with the Week at a Glance report:

Report Name	Week at a Glance
Report Category	Backup
Where to Locate	Report > Report Templates > Backup > Status & Success Rate > Week At a Glance
Report Purpose	This is a graphical report of the backup status for each protected client. A blue icon represents a successful backup, a yellow icon represents a partially successful backup, and a red icon represents a failed backup. A green background indicates a full backup. A light blue background represents an incremental backup.
Supported products	Backup Exec, NetBackup, NetBackup Master Appliance, NetBackup PureDisk
Applicable View	Master Server, Client
Report Display	Tabular
Drill down report	Week at a Glance Detail See Week at a Glance Detail report. The Week at a Glance Details report further drills down to Skip File Details.
Can be scheduled	Yes
Supported export formats	CSV, TSV, XML, HTML
Mapping with VBR report	Backups > Status > Week At a Glance
Deviations from VBR	If one client is backed up by two master servers, two rows are shown in OpsCenter while one row is displayed in VBR.

The following table shows the filters for Week at a Glance report and how you can use these filters to view specific data in the report.

Filter	Column	Description
View		Select a view to show data for the selected view in the report. By default All My Views is selected.
Master Server	Master Server	Select one or more master servers to view data for the selected master servers in the report. All master servers that are added to the OpsCenter console are shown in the Value dropdown list.
Media Server	Media Server	Select one or more media servers to view data for the specific media servers in the report. All media servers that are attached to the master servers in the OpsCenter console are shown in the Value dropdown list..
Client	Client Name Client OS	Select one or more clients to view data for the selected clients in the report. All clients that are protected by the master servers in the OpsCenter console are listed. Select one or more client OS to view data for the selected client OS in the report.
Policy	Policy Data Classification Name Policy Keyword Policy Name Policy Type	Select one or more policy data classification names like Gold, Silver, Bronze etc. to view data for the policies having the selected data classiciation names. Select one or more policy keyword to view data for the policies having the selected keyword. Select one or more policy names to view data for the selected policies. Select one or more policy types to view data for the selected policy types.
Schedule	Schedule Name	Select one or more schedule names to view data for the selected schedule names.
Job	Job Status Job Transport Type Job Type Product Type	Select one or more Job Status like Failed, Missed, Partially Successful etc. to view data for the selected job status in the report. Select one or more transport types like FT, LAN, or Unknown to view data for the jobs that have the selected transport type. Select one or more job types like Archive, Backup, Restore etc. to view data for the selected job types. Select one or more products like Backup Exec to view data for the selected products.

Example of filter usage: You may run the Week at a Glance report for a specific master server to view backup status for the clients protected by the specific master server. Further if you are interested in knowing about the status of say only Backup jobs (and no other jobs like Restore or archive jobs), you can use the Job Type filter and select Backup.

The following enhancements have been made in the Week at a Glance report:

Report Enhancements

The following report enhancements have been made:

The Week at a Glance report can now show the files and directories that are backed up for each client. The following checkbox has been added on the Modify Display Options pane when you edit the report:
Show the files and directories backed up for each client
If you check this option and click Run Report, you can view the client name and the backed up directory in the Client Name column of Week at a Glance report.
You can drill down from the Client Name column in the Week at a Glance report to view Week at a Glance Details report. This was also available earlier.
Now an additional level of drill down is available from the Week at a Glance Details report. You can now further drill down from the Job Primary ID column in Week at a Glance Details report to view Skip File Details report.
The Client Name column in the Week at a Glance report is now sorted by default.
Earlier if you selected Rolling 8 days column in the Week Information filter, the Week at a Glance report displayed one day less than VBR. This issue has now been fixed.

Filter Enhancements

The following filter enhancements are listed:

For Week Information filter, the value list for Week of the year column has been updated. The values staring from 17 Weeks Ago to 30 Weeks Ago have been added. Earlier the value selections were limited from current week to 16 Weeks Ago.
By selecting these additional values, you can view older data in the report.
UNKNOWN has been added as a value for Policy Type column in the Policy filter. You can now filter report data for policy types that are UNKNOWN. In earlier versions of OpsCenter the unknown policy types were shown as blank. Now all static columns like job type, schedule type, policy type, etc. are shown as UNKNOWN like in VBR.
Schedule filter has been added to the list of filters for this report. You can now view report data for jobs that have a specific schedule name.