Backup Executive Summary

Provides an Executive Summary status overview of backup jobs within defined backup windows. You choose the backup window to narrow the scope.

Consecutive Errors By Client

Displays consecutive errors and consecutive days. Use this report to pro-actively manage clients and servers. Consecutive errors may portend hardware reliability issues. Using this template you can identify not only consecutive errors, but also the number of consecutive days that the errors persisted. The default order for this listing is descending order, with the clients having the most consecutive errors listed first. Correlate the number of consecutive errors with the number of consecutive days so that you can disregard errors that appear to be intermittent.

Data Domain Backup Summary

Lists the NetBackup systems that have client backup data. The Data Domain system acts as an external disk pool. Note that LSU (logical storage unit) data is collected every six hours.

Error Log Summary

Lists backup failure details gleaned from backup error logs. Use this report in conjunction with the Consecutive Errors By Client report to mitigate future problems by determining which types of errors occurred with the greatest frequency.

You can customize this summary to report by a specific group: Server (the default), Client or Policy. Some fields do not appear in every Error Log Summary. Each of the three report types—Client, Server, Policy—contain only the fields that make sense for its group.

HP DP Session Summary

Lists HP Data Protector sessions, with drill down access to backup/restore session details. A list of tapes provides drill down access to the Tape Media Detail report.

Job Duration

Combines into one view, a bar chart about both backup and restore duration. If, on a specific day, there were two backup events that completed after one hour and three hours respectively, and one restore completed after .5 hours, the bar reports a duration of 4.5 hours.

You can also report on a single event type:

Job Error Code

Displays a donut chart that aggregates job error codes. Use this chart for a high-level view of backup and/or restore errors, with access to the relevant details. This high-level summary provides drill down access to the Job Summary report, where you’ll find specific status messages and scheduling information.

Job Status Summary

Displays a bar chart aggregating jobs that succeed, fail, or produce warning messages for each time period. It provides drill-down access to the Job Summary report, where you’ll find specific status messages and scheduling information. When you generate this report, several scoping options enable you to narrow the report and also to define how the data is displayed.

Job Summary

Provides details related to the data represented in the bars shown in the Job Status Summary chart. When you generate this report, several options enable you to narrow the scope of the report and also to define how the data will be displayed.

Job Summary by Server

Provides the number of jobs and their status: running, queued, warnings, errors. It displays the number of jobs and their status, for jobs started during the time period that you specified for the report.

Note: Only Veritas NetBackup, EMC NetWorker and CommVault Simpana jobs are supported for this report. Also, the report requires a homogeneous host scope—that is, choose either all NetBackup, all NetWorker or all Simpana hosts/servers in your scope selection.

Correlate the data in this report with the information in the Real Time Library and Drive Status to determine if there are problems with the server. For example, if the Job Summary By Server shows jobs in the queue and the Real Time Library and Drive Status shows available drives, something is preventing the queued jobs from getting to running status.

Job Type Count

Displays a donut chart that aggregates job types. Use this chart for a high-level view of backup jobs, with access to the relevant details. This high-level summary provides drill down access to the Job Summary report, where you’ll find specific status messages and scheduling information.

Job Volume Summary

Displays a bar chart that represents “how much” data has been backed up each day. You can use the information to ascertain problematic time periods, consumption trends, and scheduling peaks. It shows the number of files and amount of data (in KB) backed up for a specified time period. This helps to determine if your scheduling is balanced.

Largest Backup Volume

Displays a pie chart representing a snapshot of the largest backup consumers. Use this report to identify consumers of your most utilized backup volume. A pie chart graphically represents the usage that also is listed in the legend. This report will help you identify greedy hosts and applications.

Monthly Backup Summary

Displays the monthly summary for backup. When selecting the scope for this report, choose Include Master Servers. If you run the report on the Master Servers instead of clients, you can avoid having duplicate jobs in the list, if a client is backed up by two Master Servers.

Running and Queued Job Summary

Displays any job that was running or queued at the time the management servers were polled. Only Veritas NetBackup and EMC NetWorker jobs are supported for this report. Also, the report requires a homogeneous host scope—that is, choose either all NetBackup or all NetWorker in your host group scope selection. For NetWorker, this report is titled, Running Save Sets Summary.

Jobs that require attention (long-running, stalled, or slow jobs) will be highlighted in red and moved to the top of the running and queued jobs list so that they are quickly noted by administrators and handled appropriately. Each of these flagged jobs will be accompanied by one or more icons to indicate the type of potential problem.

Avamar Grid Capacity Dashboard

Displays a unified historical view of the storage and de-duplication trends of the Avamar grids. The graph represents the total usage and capacity for all disks on the host for the point in time. The Capacity Utilization and Forecast report is derived from the node disk utilization.

Client Job Histogram

Displays either Job Throughput or Job Activity based on your preference. Use these reports to identify bottlenecks. The Job Throughput Histogram provides colored visual cues for quickly determining the backup throughput trends for clients that had backup jobs within the previous 24 hours. This report shows completed jobs that started within the selected time period. The Job Activity Histogram lists clients that had backup jobs within the previous 24 hours. The colored cells enable you to quickly determine the activity per client. The report shows the number of completed jobs that started within the selected time period.

Client Protection Summary

Identifies exposure and threats to an enterprise data protection environment. The Client Protection Report provides a single-pane view of the protection status for the list of clients or servers.

With the Discovery module, you can use the Client Protection Report Designer to customize and personalize a Client Protection Summary that will identify exposure and threats to an enterprise data protection environment.

Command Center Dashboard

Displays a dashboard view of Real Time Job Summary, Real Time Library and Drive Status, Real Time Storage Unit Utilization, and Running and Queued Jobs Summary. Note: The dashboard requires a homogeneous host scope—that is, choose either all NetBackup or all Networker hosts in your scope selection.

Data Domain Replication History

Use this report to determine which destinations are being replicated. The values shown in the report are derived from cumulative statistics since the replication context was created. The remaining pre-compression (pre-comp) value, relevant for directory replication only, represents the sum of the sizes of the files yet to be replicated. Note that this value includes the entire logical size of the current file that is being replicated. For very large files, this may take some time and the remaining pre-comp value will only update once the current file replication completes. The compression factor is derived from replicated pre-comp divided by replicated
post-comp.

Data Domain Snapshot History

Lists Data Domain Snapshots with relevant retention details. Snapshots listed for each Data Domain system provide insight into retention policies. Note that expired snapshots remain available until the next filesystem clean operation.

Data Domain System Performance

Displays graphs that provide CPU, filesystem, and disk busy performance metrics. Monitor these performance statistics to assess the percentage of time that all disks in Data Domain systems are busy. You can hover your mouse over data points on the chart to view specific values.

Data Protection Dashboard

Displays a dashboard view of several reports: Message of the Day, Job Status Summary, Mission Control report, and Monthly Backup Summary. In the scope selector, in addition to specifying a time period, you also can choose to omit backup retries.

Mission Control

Provides a snapshot of backup/restore event status, with easily identifiable indicators of success/failure and you can drill downs to details.Using this report, you can easily identify servers that have not had backups or failed backups. Drill down to ascertain the root cause of unsuccessful backups. Organizations use this report to ensure Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, as it shows ultimate backup success over time.

Operations Dashboard

Displays a dashboard view of Job Status Summary, Current Media Summary, Largest Backup Volume, and Storage Unit Summary. The reports displayed in this dashboard are dependent on the type of backup system selected in the report scope. For example, the Storage Unit Summary is relevant only for NetBackup servers. Note that in the Storage Unit Summary, used and free values of Unknown indicate the Discovery module has not been configured to probe the media servers’ file systems for their physical characteristics.

TSM Storage Pools Dashboard

Displays a real-time view into capacity and process status information for the selected list of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Storage Pools. In a single pane, you quickly can analyze capacity and process status information for each of the Storage Pools. The Storage Pool Capacity pie chart displays the percentage and GBytes used and available for the Storage Pool. The GBytes Used is calculated by multiplying the percentage used by the estimated capacity of the Storage Pool.

Current Media Summary

Displays pie charts illustrating a real-time snapshot of all the media utilized by the hosts within the report scope. The Current Media Summary provides an at-a-glance view of the status of the media associated with each of your backup solutions. The pie charts and legends in this report provide drill down access to the Tape Media Summary report. The status types vary for each pie chart because they are directly related to the specific backup solution. For example, NetBackup reports expired tapes, while NetWorker indicates which tapes can be recycled. You can hold your mouse over any of the pie chart sections and a pop-up will display details about the media of the corresponding status. Similar information is reflected in the chart legend.

Data Domain VTL Errors

Displays a summary of error statistics for all virtual tape libraries (VTL) in a Data Domain system. The number of soft and hard errors per VTL are listed. Soft errors represent errors from which the system recovered, so additional actions are not required. No preventative measures or maintenance actions are necessary. The main reason to monitor soft errors is to ensure that performance is not being impacted by a large number of soft errors. Hard errors, on the other hand, indicate more serious issues and the system could not recover from them. These errors typically require user intervention. View the Data Domain logs to determine an appropriate action.

Data Domain VTL Media Summary

Displays a summary list of media, enabling an overview of the tapes in use by one or more Data Domain systems. The media IDs (otherwise known as barcodes) identify a tape associated with a Data Domain system. In addition, the pool indicates whether the tape is in a user-created pool or the default pool. Likewise, the location indicates if the tapes are in a user-created library or in the virtual vault. Use the Available columns to determine the amount of unused space on each virtual tape, as well as a total of all available tape space.

Data Domain VTL Performance

Contains graphs that represent statistics for all drives in the Data Domain VTL: Reads Mb/sec, Writes Mb/sec, Operations/sec. In addition to library configuration details, such as number of drives and slots, bar charts provide an at-a-glance view of virtual tape library (VTL) performance for each library. Click sections of the bar charts to drill down to Data Domain filesystem status details, relevant to the read/write performance statistics.

Tape Media Summary

Displays a summary of Tape Media usage. This report does not display Backup Exec media data.

Depending on your environment, this report listing can get rather long, so you may want to narrow the report’s scope. When you generate the report, you can limit the output using the following parameter choices:

Backup Duration SLA

Displays the total number of backups that completed within the specific time range. The information is displayed in bar chart. Best practices for report generation:

Backup Start Time SLA

Displays the total number of backups that began within a specific time range of their scheduled start time. Use this report to determine what proportion of backups started at their scheduled time, or were delayed and by how long. If jobs are consistently missing their targeted start times, you may need to investigate the feasibility of your current schedule. A delay could be the result of other jobs taking too long or possibly because there are no drives available.

Backup Status SLA

Represents the success and failure performance of the backup status SLA. Use the Backup Status SLA report to determine backup success performance and to identify backup failures. A typical backup success percentage might be 85%, as indicated by the Successful Backups Goal line shown in the bar chart. You can drill down into any failed job to identify the cause of the failure.

Data Domain Disk Performance

Displays cumulative throughput for all disks in the Data Domain system. This report displays the average throughput for all disks in the Data Domain system along with the average disk busy statistics. These statistics are averaged over time, since the last “disk re-set performance” command or since the last system power-up cycle.

Data Domain Filesystem Compression

Displays a bar chart that displays file system compression statistics. Use this report to view a bar chart of the last day’s (24 hours) compression statistics, both data sent before compression and also the actual physical space used. These statistics provide insight into how well compression is working during that time period.

Data Domain System Summary

Lists a summary of the Data Domain systems. Use this report to monitor Data Domain system capacities to determine the amount available for data storage. The capacity and used values are derived from Data Domain filesystem data, while virtual tape library (VTL) values represent the totals for all VTLs and tapes in the system.

Disk Usage & Performance

Displays bar charts representing backup volume and throughput. Pie charts represent storage consumption. Click a pie slice or a bar to drill down to the associated NetBackup storage unit event details. When reporting on long time periods, use the Group By option in the Report Designer to render the bar charts in a more usable format. The data can be grouped by days, weeks, months, quarters, and years.

Drive Performance Summary

Provides a high-level view of drive performance statistics. It lists all the backup events that took place on that drive for the time period that you specified in the scope selector. Additionally, the min, max, and avg KBytes/Sec for the time period are provided at the bottom of the report.

Drive Utilization & Performance

Displays bar charts of drive activity. The report enables you to view and compare utilization and performance of the tape drives in your environment. By viewing the total aggregate throughput per drive, you can use this information to help you tune your backup policies.

NetBackup Deduplication Effect

Provides a graphical representation of the deduplication effect, both scanned and protected. It enables you to see the benefits of deduplication. When reporting on long time periods, use the Group By option in the Report Designer to render the bar charts in a more usable format. The data can be grouped by days, weeks, months, quarters, and years.

NetBackup Deduplication Savings

Provides a graphical representation of the deduplication savings. Use this report to quickly validate how much storage has been saved because of deduplication. The graph displays the difference between the total data scanned and the total stored.

Real Time Library and Drive Status

Displays high-level detail of tape libraries in your storage environment. Use this report to monitor the health of each library. This report displays current high-level information for each tape library in your environment. The data will only be as current as the time of the most recent poll of your management server(s).

The report requires a homogeneous host scope—that is, choose either all NetBackup or all NetWorker in your host group scope selection.

Storage Unit Detail

Displays storage unit event details. The Storage Unit Detail report provides a comprehensive view of all tape media in each tape library, groups of tape media outside the libraries, and capacity and usage information for disk storage unit file systems.

Storage Unit Summary

Provides library and file system details for NetBackup storage units. Only the first four tape libraries are displayed.

Tape Library & Drive Utilization

Displays a bar chart of the average drive utilization against the actual drive utilization for any given time period. Often, this report is used to justify VTL purchases. Identify how many tape drives are writing and for how long. In addition, the Drive Utilization & Performance Report provides insight into the throughput, with drilldowns to drive performance.

This report is applicable to only Veritas NetBackup, HP Data Protector, Commvault Simpana, IBM TSM, and EMC Networker.

TSM Database Utilization

Displays the usage and capacity trending of IBM Tivoli Storage Manager database. Using this report, you can determine how much of the allocated database space has been used over the selected report period. Each bar shows the average amount of time the library drive(s) are being utilized stacked against the actual amount of utilization time.

TSM Recovery Log Utilization

Displays IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Recovery Log usage—both the maximum used and the available capacity. The TSM Recovery Log contains transactions prior to TSM committing them to the database. Use this report to monitor the size of the log to prevent degradation on the TSM server.

Data Domain Filesystem Capacity & Forecast

Displays the total physical disk space, after de-duplication and compression, available for data storage. You can set your scope selection from the following:

Library Capacity Forecast

Displays a bar chart of NetBackup tape library usage and forecast. This report can display either a bar chart view or a tabular report of library capacity, current usage, and forecasted usage. Note that in the bar chart, the yellow line represents estimated library capacity.

Media Availability Forecast

Displays bar chart forecasting consumption versus available media. The system calculates the forecasted consumption by the close of each day, using the following algorithm:

(previous day’s availability + forecasted media expiration - forecasted consumption)

Media Consumption Forecast

Displays a bar chart representing historical tape usage with a projection of future needs. You can select report periods ranging from one week to eight weeks of data. In addition, you can narrow the report scope by choosing specific host groups or even host within a group.

To forecast the seven days of usage, the report averages day-of-the-week consumption data for a historical period specified in the time period.

Media Forecasting Dashboard

Displays bar charts, pie charts, and tables representing forecasted consumption. The report displays 14 Days of historical consumption and 7 days of forecasted consumption. Using this dashboard, you can pro-actively manage tape availability.

Scratch Pool Forecast

Displays a bar chart of available and forecasted scratch pool storage. A scratch pool is a repository of media that is available to backup servers. Backup success is tied directly to scratch pools. The following may affect the availability of media in a scratch pool:

The current day is treated as the future for the purpose of forecasting.

Tape Drive Usage & Forecast

A bar chart shows maximum/average used, with maximum/average forecasted.

Use this report to determine if and when you need to add more tape drives to your libraries. When you customize this report, if you enter a date range in the past, the report will include historical usage information. If your date range includes a finish date beyond the current day, the report will include forecast estimates. The current day is treated as the future for the purpose of forecasting.

Billing & Chargeback Summary

Displays a table of usage and billing details by host. If the scope of this report is for NetBackup-only host groups, three additional columns will be included: Total Dup (GB), Cost Per Dup’d GB, and Dup’d Usage Cost GB, which are set in the Billing and Usage Policies.

Server Consumption Summary

Displays consumption details by server. If you are in a large enterprise, this table can get unwieldy, so consider modifying the scope to filter the data by group. By default, the report lists clients in descending consumption order, with the heaviest consumer at the top.

The following algorithm determines total consumption: total disk backup + total tape backup = total consumption

You can sort the data by Tape Backup or Disk Backup to identify heaviest storage device consumers.

Avamar Groups

Lists Avamar groups defined on the selected Avamar servers, with retention policies and schedules. An Avamar Group provides the mechanism for applying a set of backup rules to a collection of clients. Backups are scheduled to run automatically, using the group specifications. Groups contain a dataset, a schedule, and a retention policy which comprise the backup policy for all members (clients) of the group. Each client that is to be backed up must be a member of at least one group; therefore, a Default Group provides a policy when a client has not been assigned to a more specific policy.

Commvault Simpana Policies

Provides a summary view of CommVault Simpana policies and policy details. A Commvault Policy provides the mechanism for applying a set of backup rules to a collection of clients.

HP DP Backup Specification

Lists HP Data Protector summary specifications, with drilldowns to details. The HP Data Protector report lists the Backup Specification, with the objects that are backed up, the servers and the next time the backup will be performed. Note that the objects can be entire disks or volumes, or sub-sets of these, such as directories or the Windows Registry.

NetBackup Policies

Lists NetBackup policies, with drill downs to details. The Policy Details include not only a list of clients covered by the policy, but also the scheduling details. Often the list of clients is long, so you need to scroll to the bottom of the report to see the scheduling details.

NetWorker Groups

Displays NetWorker groups, with drilldowns to details. EMC NetWorker provides a group resource to automate backups on a group-by-group basis. By setting up groups, you can manage the load on backup servers.

TSM Policy Domains

Lists TSM policy domains, with drilldowns to details. This report is specific to IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. Use this report to verify the schedules associated with a policy domain, as well as which client nodes are covered by a policy domain. You can click the Domain Name hyperlink to access policy domain details where you'll see policy sets. A Policy Set is an object that contains a group of management class definitions that exist for a policy domain. Several policy sets can exist within a policy domain, but only one policy set can be active at a time.