Jobs reports

Each protection operation is a job. There are four categories of jobs:

  • Snapshot

  • Replication

  • Recovery

Job reports record the execution and results of these operations.

Application backup status by consistency date

This report provides backup jobs details of successful images and data handled by snapshot job.

The data provided in this report is grouped by each application and displayed for the selected consistency dates.

Column description

  • Appliance. Name of the appliance.

  • Host. Name of the host where the application resides.

  • Application. Name of the application suffixed with the host name.

  • Application Type. Type of the application.

  • Consistency Date. Time stamp when the application freezes for the backup job.

  • Policy Template. Name of the policy template used for application protection.

  • Profile Name. Name of the profile used for application protection.

  • Job Name. Name of the job run for the consistency date.

  • Image Name. Name of the image created by the successful backup job.

  • Backup Status. Status of the backup job (Succeeded, Failed, or Canceled).

  • Data Copied (GB). Application data copied into the storage pools. This field is specific for snapshot jobs.

Report parameters

  • Select Appliances. The multi-select drop-down lists all the appliances that are added to Report Manager.

  • Select Application Types. The multi-select drop-down lists the application type for the applications that belong to the selected appliances.

  • Select Applications. The multi-select drop-down lists the applications that belong to the selected appliances and application types. The host name is prefixed with the application name, so that all the applications belonging to a host are listed together.

  • Select Start Date. Start date of the reporting interval with the default selection as DAY-1.

  • Select End Date. End date of the reporting interval with the default selection as DAY.

    The default reporting interval is the last 24 hours as defined by DAY and DAY-1.

Backup job details

This report provides details about the following backup jobs: Snapshot, OnVault, Log Replicate, StreamSnap, and Direct-to-OnVault. The report also shows the log backup jobs and includes an option to show only Log backup jobs. The chart in the report shows the count of jobs based on the status (succeeded, failed, canceled, not run) for the selected dates. The Backup Job Details report also shows how long a queued job has been waiting.

Column descriptions

  • Appliance. Name of the appliance.

  • Host. Name of the host where the application resides.

  • Application. Name of the application suffixed with the host name.

  • Application Type. Type of the application.

  • Policy Template. Policy Template used for application protection.

  • Policy Name. Name of the policy used for protection.

  • Job Name. Name of the job.

  • Job Type. Type of the job.

  • Target. Pool name or remote appliance name/ID.

  • Log Backup. Sub-job type Log Backup for Snapshot and StreamSnap jobs only.

  • Status. Completion status of the job (Succeeded, Failed, Canceled, or Running).

  • Percent Complete. Shows the progress of running jobs. (Not applicable for succeeded, failed, or canceled jobs.)

  • Queued. Timestamp of the job queue for queued jobs.

  • Started. Timestamp of the start of the job. (Blank if the jobs have not been run.)

  • Ended. Timestamp of the end of the job. Shows the violation time for jobs that have not been run.

  • Duration (Hours). Time taken for job completion in hours.

  • Consistency Point. Consistency date for the job.

  • Application Size (GB). Size of protected application.

  • Data Copied (GB). Size of data copied.

  • Percent Changed. Percentage of data copied is of application size.

  • Full Copy. True when data capture job is a full backup.

  • Crash Consistent. True when backup is crash consistent.

  • Scheduled. True when the job is run by policy scheduler.

  • Message. Cause of the job failure. Blank for successful, canceled, and running jobs.

  • Hours Since Last Success. Hours since the last job for the policy ran successfully.

Report parameters

  • Select Appliances. The multi-select drop-down lists all the appliances that are added to Report Manager.

  • Select Application Types. The multi-select drop-down lists the application type for the applications that belong to the selected appliances.

  • Select Policy Templates. The multi-select drop-down lists the policy templates.

  • Select Job Types. The multi-select drop-down lists the Job Types: Snapshot, StreamSnap, and OnVault.

  • Select Job Status. The multi-select drop-down lists the job status: Succeeded, Failed, Running, or Canceled.

  • Host Name (for wildcard). Filter for host name, you can specify * as a wildcard when used it appends any number of characters to the string. You can search for a set of hosts with <space> or <space> in between the names.

  • Application Name (* for wildcard). Filter for application name, you can specify * as a wildcard when used it appends any number of characters to the string. You can search for a set of applications with <space> or <space> in between the names.

  • Include jobs not run because scheduler was disabled. Includes not run jobs reported for applications with scheduler disabled.

  • Show Time Since Last Success. Selecting this option displays the hours since the last success values for each job.

  • Minimum Percent Change. Filter for the minimum volume of new data that is added to the corresponding storage pools.

  • Minimum Duration (Hours). Filter for jobs with minimum duration.

  • Select Start Date. Start date of the reporting interval with the default selection as DAY-1.

  • Select End Date. End date of the reporting interval with the default selection as DAY.

  • Show Summary. Checking this option displays a summary section on top of the report.

    The default reporting interval is the last 24 hours as defined by DAY and DAY-1.

Backup job summary

This report provides a backup job summary for the appliances configured with Report Manager. The summary contains tabular data that shows the job count based on all the job type, snapshot, remote, StreamSnap, OnVault, log backup, and log replicate jobs. It also provides the job status as Succeeded, Failed, Running, Canceled, and Not Run for each appliance. The Summary row displays the enterprise job count.

There are two sets of summary charts based on aggregated data for all job types: snapshot, remote, StreamSnap, OnVault, and log replicate.

  • Two dual level pie graphs. One graph represents appliance-wise job counts for the mentioned job types. (For the top five appliances, it shows that each appliance is aggregated into a single group called other Appliances.) The other representing job counts for job types with the corresponding statuses.

  • Line chart. Shows the trend over time for job count by status. (Optional controlled by show time series graphs input control.)

The report also provides an option to drill down within the backup job details report. This capability is provided in the appliance name and job count in the table, as well as the data points in the column chart and the line chart.

Column descriptions

  • Appliance. Name of the appliance.

  • All Job Types. Refers to the count of job, irrespective of the job type selected.

  • Snapshot or Remote or StreamSnap or OnVault or Log Backup or Log Replication Refers to the count of jobs for the respective job type category.

  • Total. Job count for the selected appliances and date range, irrespective of the job types or status.

  • Succeeded. Job count for the selected appliances and date range, irrespective of the job types or status.

  • Success Percent. Percentage of jobs succeeded for the selected appliances and date range, irrespective of the job types or status.

  • Failed. Job count for the selected appliances and date range, irrespective of the job type or status.

  • Running. Job count for the selected appliances and date range, irrespective of the job type or status.

  • Canceled. Job count for the selected appliances and date range, irrespective of the job type or status.

  • Queued. Job count for the selected appliances and date range, irrespective of the job type or status.

  • Not Run. Violation count of jobs that did not run for the selected appliances and date range, irrespective of the job type or status

Report parameters

  • Select Appliances. The multi-select drop-down lists all the appliances that are added to the Report Manager.

  • Select Application Types. The multi-select drop-down lists the application type for the applications that belong to the selected appliances.

  • Select Policy Templates. The multi-select drop-down, list all the policy templates used by the selected applications and appliances.

  • Success Percent Calculation. The single-select drop-down lists two options: Include in-progress jobs and finished jobs only. If finished jobs only is selected, running and queued jobs are excluded while calculating the success percentage.

  • Select Start Date. Start date of the reporting interval with the default selection as DAY-7.

  • Select End Date. End date of the reporting interval with the default selection as DAY.

  • Show Time Series Charts. Displays time series charts when checked.

  • Show Duel Pie Graphs. Controls the display of dual level pie graphs.

  • Include Jobs Not Run because Scheduler was disabled. Includes jobs not run because the scheduler was disabled.

The default reporting interval is last seven days as defined by DAY and DAY-7.

Database log backup summary

This report provide the LOG backup summary for database applications, for the selected date range. This reports the success percent of the LOG backup and also indicate the backups which are at risk with a different color highlighting.

Column descriptions

  • Appliance. Name of the appliance.

  • Host. Name of the host where the application resides.

  • Application. Name of the application suffixed with the host name.

  • Application Type. Type of the application.

  • Policy Template. Policy Template used for application protection.

  • Log Backups Attempted. Total number of log-backups.

  • Succeeded. Number of succeeded jobs.

  • Failed. Number of failed jobs.

  • Canceled. Number of canceled jobs.

  • Not Run. Number of not run jobs.

  • Queued. Number of queued jobs.

  • Running. Number of running jobs.

  • Success Percent. Success percentage of jobs.

Report parameters

  • Select Appliances. The multi-select drop-down lists all the appliances that are added to the Report Manager.

  • Select Application Types. The multi-select drop-down lists the application type for the applications that belong to the selected appliances. (Database applications only)

  • Select Policy Templates. The multi-select drop-down, list the policy templates.

  • Host Name. Filter for host name, you can specify * as a wildcard when used it appends any number of characters to the string. You can search for a set of hosts with <space> or <space> in between the names.

  • Application Name. Filter for application name, you can specify * as a wildcard when used it appends any number of characters to the string. You can search for a set of applications with <space> or <space> in between the names.

  • Show Application with Scheduler Disabled. When checked displays applications with backup scheduler disabled.

  • Success % Calculation. The single-select drop-down lists two options Include in-progress jobs and finished jobs only. If finished jobs only is selected, running and queued jobs are excluded while calculating success percent while the former doesn't. Include in-progress jobs is selected by default.

  • Maximum Success %. Filter for success percent.

  • Select Start Date. Beginning date of the reporting interval having default selection as DAY-1.

  • Select End Date. Ending date of the reporting interval having default selection as DAY.

  • Hide Headers & Footers. Checking this option hides all sections except the table report (Used to export report in CSV format).

The default reporting interval is last seven days as defined by DAY and DAY-7.

Failed jobs

This report shows the details of all failed jobs for the selected job types, applications, and time period.

Column descriptions

  • Appliance. Name of the appliance.

  • Job Type. Backup job type.

  • Host. Name of the host where the application resides.

  • Application. Name of the application suffixed with the host name.

  • Application Type. Type of the application.

  • Policy Template. Policy template used for application protection.

  • Job Name. Name of the job.

  • Started. Timestamp of the start of the job. Blank for jobs that have not been run.

  • Ended. Violation Time: Timestamp of the end of the job.

  • Duration (Hours). Time taken for job completion in hours.

  • Error Code. Error ID assigned to the failed job.

  • Message. Error message for the failed job.

  • Hours Since Failure. Hours since the job for the application has failed.

Report parameters

  • Select Appliances. The multi-select drop-down lists all the appliances that are added to Report Manager.

  • Select Job Types. The multi-select drop-down lists job types.

  • Select Application Types. The multi-select drop-down lists the application type for the applications that belong to the selected appliances.

  • Select Policy Templates. The multi-select drop-down lists the policy templates.

  • Host Name (for wildcard). Filter for host name, you can specify * as a wildcard when used it appends any number of characters to the string. You can search for a set of hosts with <space> or <space> in between the names.

  • Application Name (for wildcard). Filter for application name, you can specify * as a wildcard when used it appends any number of characters to the string. You can search for a set of applications with <space> or <space> in between the names.

  • Minimum Hours Since Failure. Minimum hours since the job for the application has failed.

  • Select Start Date. Start date of the reporting interval with the default selection as DAY-7.

  • Select End Date. End date of the reporting interval with the default selection as DAY.

The default reporting interval is the last seven days as defined by DAY and DAY-7.

Job history summary by application

Every application is protected by executing a set of jobs depending on the protection policy set for the application. Based on the execution frequency set in the protection policy, each type of job is run periodically as specified. This report provides a success, failure, canceled, and running summary for job types for each application. Log backups are treated as a separate job type from snapshots. Totals for log backups are provided on the last page of the report. These totals double-count jobs that are Db+Log backups if both log backup and snapshot jobs are selected.

Column descriptions

  • Appliance. Name of the appliance.

  • Host. Name of the host where the application resides.

  • Application. Name of the application suffixed with the host name.

  • Policy Template. Policy template used for application protection.

  • Application Type. Type of the application.

  • Job Type. Type of the job.

  • Total Jobs. Total number of jobs for the job type that were run for the application.

  • Succeeded Job. Number of successful jobs for the job type that were run for the application.

  • Success Percent (%). Percentage of successful jobs for the job type that were run for the application.

  • Failed Jobs(#). Number of failed jobs for the job type that were run for the application.

  • Failed Percent(%). Percentage of failed jobs for the job type that were run for the application.

  • Canceled Jobs. Number of canceled jobs for the job type that were run for the application.

  • Running Jobs. Number of running jobs for the application and job type.

  • Queued Jobs. Number of queued jobs for the application and job type.

  • Not Run Jobs. Number of jobs not run for the application and job type.

Report parameters

  • Select Appliances. The multi-select drop-down lists all the appliances that are added to Report Manager.

  • Select Application Types. The multi-select drop-down lists the application type for the applications that belong to the selected appliances.

  • Select Policy Templates. The multi-select drop-down lists the policy templates.

  • Select Job Types. The multi-select drop-down lists job types.

  • Host Name (for wildcard). Filter for host name, you can specify * as a wildcard when used it appends any number of characters to the string. You can search for a set of hosts with <space> or <space> in between the names.

  • Application Name (for wildcard). Filter for application name, you can specify * as a wildcard when used it appends any number of characters to the string. You can search for a set of applications with <space> or <space> in between the names.

  • Success Percent Calculation. The single-select drop-down lists two options Include in-progress jobs and finished jobs only. If finished jobs only selected, running, and queued jobs are excluded while calculating success percent.

  • Include Jobs Not Run because Scheduler was disabled. Includes jobs not run because the scheduler was disabled.

  • Select Start Date. Start date of the reporting interval with default selection as DAY-1.

  • Select End Date. End date of the reporting interval with default selection as DAY.

The default reporting interval is the last 24 hours as defined by DAY and DAY-1. The totals will count DB+Log backups as two jobs (a log backup and a snapshot) even though there is only one job record.

Recovery job details

The report shows the job details of the summary information provided in the Recovery Job Summary report. This report shows the effectiveness of the VDP appliance in recovering backed-up application data. This report includes restore jobs, such as Restore, Mount, and Clone.

Column descriptions

  • Appliance. Name of the source appliance.

  • Target Appliance. Name of the target appliance.

  • Mounted Host. Host on which the appliance is running.

  • Application. Name of the application.

  • Application Type. Type of application.

  • Job Name. Name of the job.

  • Job Type. Type of the job. This is a sub-type of the major type Restore that includes Mount and Clone.

  • Virtual Size (GB). Virtual size of the recovered application.

  • Started. Date and time when the job started.

  • Ended. Date and time when the job ended.

  • Duration (Hours). Time taken for completion of job (in hours).

  • Consistency Point. Consistency date for the job.

  • Status. Completion status (Succeeded or Failed) of the job.

  • Error Message. Reason for the job failure.

Report parameters

  • Select Appliances. The multi-select drop-down lists all the appliances that are added to the Report Manager.

  • Select Application Types. The multi-select drop-down lists the application type for the applications that belong to the selected appliances.

  • Select Policy Templates. The multi-select drop-down, lists the policy templates for the applications that belong to the selected appliances.

  • Select Job Types. The multi-select drop-down lists job types.

  • Host Name (for wildcard). Filter for host name, you can specify * as a wildcard when used it appends any number of characters to the string. You can search for a set of hosts with <space> or <space> in between the names.

  • Application Name (for wildcard). Filter for application name, you can specify * as a wildcard when used it appends any number of characters to the string. You can search for a set of applications with <space> or <space> in between the names.

  • Minimum Duration (Hours). Filter for jobs with minimum duration.

  • Select Start Date. Beginning date of the data reporting interval having default selection as DAY-3.

  • Select End Date. Ending date of the data reporting interval having default selection as DAY.

  • Hide Headers & Footers. Checking this option hides all sections except the table report (used to export report in CSV format or for exception-only report scheduling).

The default reporting interval is the last three days as defined by DAY and DAY-3.

Recovery job summary

This report shows the effectiveness of the backup/recovery appliance in recovering backed-up application data. All the job types are included in the summary. It summarizes the total number of restore jobs of all types, as well as the number and percentage of successful restore jobs for each protected application.

Column descriptions

  • Appliance. Name of the appliance.

  • Host. Name of the host where the application resides.

  • Application. Name of the application.

  • Application Type. Type of application.

  • Job Name. Name of the job.

  • Job Type. Type of the job. This a sub-type (such as Mount or Clone) of the major job type Restore.

  • Job-s Total Count. Total number of jobs for the application and job type combination.

  • Succeeded. Number of jobs that ran successfully.

  • Failed. Number of jobs that failed.

  • Running. Number of jobs that are running.

  • Success%. Percentage of jobs that ran successfully.

Report parameters

  • Select Appliances. The multi-select drop-down lists all the appliances that are added to Report Manager.

  • Select Application Types. The multi-select drop-down lists the application type for the applications that belong to the selected appliances.

  • Select Policy Templates. The multi-select drop-down, lists the policy templates for the applications that belong to the selected appliances.

  • Select Job Types. The multi-select drop-down lists job types.

  • Host Name (for wildcard). Filter for host name, you can specify * as a wildcard when used it appends any number of characters to the string. You can search for a set of hosts with <space> or <space> in between the names.

  • Application Name (for wildcard). Filter for application name, you can specify * as a wildcard when used it appends any number of characters to the string. You can search for a set of applications with <space> or <space> in between the names.

  • Minimum Duration (Hours). Filter for jobs with minimum duration.

  • Select Start Date. Beginning date of the data reporting interval having the default selection as DAY-3.

  • Select End Date. Ending date of the data reporting interval having the default selection as DAY.

  • Hide Headers & Footers. Selecting this option hides all sections except the table report (used to export report in CSV format or for exception-only report scheduling).

The default reporting interval is the last three days as defined by DAY and DAY-3.

Running jobs

The Running Jobs report provides details about the running backup jobs captured during the data sync time. The report also shows durations of the three previous jobs run for the selected application and job type combination.

Column descriptions

  • Appliance. Name of the appliance.

  • Host. Name of the host where the application resides.

  • Application. Name of the application suffixed with the host name.

  • Application Type. Type of the application.

  • Policy Template. Policy template used for application protection.

  • Job Name. Name of the job.

  • Job Type. Backup job type.

  • Log Backup. Sub-job type, log backup for snapshot and StreamSnap jobs only.

  • Started. Timestamp of the start of the job.

  • Duration + (Hours). Time taken for job completion in hours.

  • Previous Durations (Hours). Durations of the last three successful jobs that ran for an application and job type combination. This information is displayed when the Show Previous Durations option is selected.

  • Application Size (GB). Protected application size.

  • Progress. Percentage of job completion.

  • On Demand. No when the job is run by the policy scheduler.

  • Target. Shows the storage pool name or remote appliance name and ID.

Report parameters

  • Select Appliances. The multi-select drop-down lists all the appliances that are added to Report Manager.

  • Select Application Types. The multi-select drop-down lists the application type for the applications that belong to the selected appliances.

  • Select Policy Templates. The multi-select drop-down lists the policy templates.

  • Select Job Types. The multi-select drop-down lists job types.

  • Show Previous Durations. By selecting this check box, displays Previous Durations column.

  • Minimum Duration. Filter for jobs with minimum duration.

  • % Slower Than Previous Durations. When the value is provided, it will only show jobs that has a history of at least three successful jobs and the elapsed time of the running job of at least that percent longer than the average of those three jobs.

  • Hide Headers & Footers. Checking this option hides all sections except the table report (used to export reports in CSV format).

Unresolved failures

This report displays applications that had job failures in the selected time period without any subsequent successful jobs. Failures are grouped by the combination of application, job type, and error code. A failure count and time range is provided in this report.

Column descriptions

  • Appliance. Name of the source appliance.

  • Host. Name of the host where the application resides.

  • Application. Name of the application suffixed with the host name.

  • Application Type. Type of the application.

  • Policy Template. Policy template used for application protection.

  • Job Type. Type of the job.

  • Log Backup Status. Sub-job type. LOG Backup for Snapshot and StreamSnap jobs only.

  • Error Code. Unique code for the failure reason.

  • Error Message. Error message for the failure reason.

  • Failure Count. Number of jobs failed with the reason for the application and job class combination.

  • First Failure. Timestamp of the first failed job for the selected interval.

  • Last Failure. Timestamp of the last failed job for the selected interval.

  • Hours Since Failure. Minimum hours since the job for the application has failed.

Report parameters

  • Select Appliances. The multi-select drop-down lists all the appliances that are added to Report Manager.

  • Select Application Types. The multi-select drop-down lists the application type for the applications that belong to the selected appliances.

  • Select Policy Templates. The multi-select drop-down lists the policy templates for the applications that belong to the selected appliances.

  • Select Job Types. The multi-select drop-down lists job types.

  • Host Name (for wildcard). Filter for host name, you can specify * as a wildcard when used it appends any number of characters to the string. You can search for a set of hosts with <space> or <space> in between the names.

  • Application Name (for wildcard). Filter for application name, you can specify * as a wildcard when used it appends any number of characters to the string. You can search for a set of applications with <space> or <space> in between the names.

  • Minimum Failure Count. Filter for failure count

  • Minimum Hours Since Failure. Filter for jobs with minimum time since failure (hours).

  • Select Start Date. Beginning date of the data reporting interval having default selection as DAY-3.

  • Select End Date. Ending date of the data reporting interval having default selection as DAY.

    The default reporting interval is the last three days as defined by DAY and DAY-3.

  • Show Previous Success. On selecting, enables the previous success details.

  • Show Applications with Scheduler Disabled. When checked, displays applications with backup scheduler disabled.