NetVault 11.4.5 - Administration Guide

Table 37. Policy job definition
Option	Description
Job Name	Type a name for the job. Assign a descriptive name that allows you to easily identify the job for monitoring its progress or restoring data. The job name can contain alphanumeric and non-alphanumeric characters, but it cannot contain non‑Latin characters. There is no length restriction. However, a maximum of 40 characters is recommended on all platforms.
Selections	Select an existing Backup Selection Set, or click Create New, and select the items that you want to back up. The selection tree is specific to a plug-in; it depends on the type of data that you are backing up. For more information about selecting data for backups, see the relevant plug-in user's guide.
Plugin Options	Select an existing Backup Options Set, or click Create New, and configure the options that you want to use. The backup options are specific to a plug-in; the options depend on the type of data that you are backing up. For more information about these options, see the relevant plug-in user's guide.
Schedule	Select an existing Schedule Set, or click Create New, and configure the schedule type and schedule method. For more information, see Creating Schedule Sets. The predefined set “Immediate” is selected by default. To run the job as soon as it is submitted, use this set.
Source Storage	Select an existing Source Set, or click Create New, and configure the source device options for the job. For more information, see Creating Source Sets for backup jobs. This option is only available to Plug-in for Consolidation and Plug-in for Data Copy jobs.
Target Storage	Select an existing Target Set, or click Create New, and configure the target device and media options for the job. For more information, see Creating Target Sets. The predefined set “Default Backup Target Options” is selected by default.
Advanced Options	Select an existing Backup Advanced Options Set, or click Create New, and configure the options that you want to use. For more information, see Creating Backup Advanced Options Sets. The predefined set “Default Advance Backup Options” is selected by default.

Click Save to save the job definition.

To add more jobs, repeat Step 3.

Click Add Clients.

To apply the policy to one or more clients or client groups, do the following:

Table 38. Client and client group selection for backup policy
Option	Description
Add clients or client groups	In the Available table, select the clients and client groups that you want to add, and click Add. To select consecutive items, hold down the Shift key while clicking with the mouse button; to select non-consecutive items, hold down the Ctrl key while clicking with the mouse button. The selected items are moved to the Selected table. NOTE: The client status icons are displayed, which indicate whether the client is online of offline. The policy jobs are successful only if the selected client is online. For more information about client status icons, see Table 7.
Remove clients or client groups	In the Selected table, select the clients and client groups that you want to remove, and click Remove. The selected items are moved to the Selected table.

To save the policy definition without configuring the events for Policy warnings and failures, click Save Policy, else Click Add Events.

When creating a backup policy, NetVault Backup lets you configure user-defined events that can be raised when one or more policy jobs complete with warnings or fail.

You can use these options when you want to be notified about the completion status of a policy.


	NOTE: NetVault Backup includes several predefined events, which are raised for significant occurrences within the system. For more information, see About NetVault Backup events and Events types. You can also raise user-defined events for individual backup jobs, restore jobs, report jobs, policies, and log messages. You can use various notification methods to receive notifications when the predefined or user‑defined events occur in NetVault Backup. For more information, see Using global notification methods.

To raise a user-defined event for the policy, configure the following settings. Once you create a user‑defined event, you can raise it for any policy. NetVault Backup adds these events to the event class Policy — User defined.

Table 39. User-defined events for backup policy
Option	Description
Raise event if policy has warnings	Type or select the event that you want to raise when one or more policy jobs complete with warnings.
Raise event if policy has errors	Type or select the event that you want to raise when one or more policy jobs fail.

To receive a notification when an event occurs, set up a notification method for the event. For more information, see the Setting up a global notification method.

Click Save Policy to save the policy definition.

Viewing existing backup policies

You can view information about the existing policies from the Manage Policies page. The page displays the status, policy name, number of active jobs, state, total clients, scheduled jobs, job status, and total jobs.

To view the existing backup policies:

In the Navigation pane, click Manage Policies.

On the Manage Policies page, the Available Policies table is displayed.

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Status: Displays the status of the policy using the following icons:

Table 40. Policy status icons


Icon	Description
	The corresponding policy has completed successfully. It indicates that all jobs have completed successfully.
	The corresponding policy has completed with warnings. It indicates that one or more jobs have completed with warnings.
	The corresponding policy has failed. It indicates that one or more jobs have failed.

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Policy Name: Displays the name of the backup policy.

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Number of active jobs: Displays the number of jobs that are currently active for the policy.

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State: Displays the policy state. The policy state can be Active, Dormant, Quiescing, or Quiesced.

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Total Clients: Displays the total number of clients in the policy.

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Scheduled Jobs: Displays the total number of scheduled jobs in the policy.

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Job Status: Displays the last exit status and count of the policy jobs using the following icons:

Table 41. Policy jobs status icons and counts


Icon	Description
	The corresponding policy jobs have completed successfully. The count below the icon shows the number of healthy policy jobs. Click the count to display Job Status page showing the Job Activity table of all the healthy policy jobs.
	The corresponding policy jobs have completed with warnings. The count below the icon shows the number of completed policy jobs with warning. Click the count to display Job Status page showing the Job Activity table of all the completed policy jobs with warning.
	The corresponding policy jobs have failed. The count below the icon shows the number of failed policy jobs. Click the count to display Job Status page showing the Job Activity table of all the failed policy jobs.