NetVault 13.0.3 - Administration Guide

Select reason: Use this option to set the reason for unusable media such as ASF, Bad, Foreign, Full, Offline, Other, Read Only, or Unusable. By default, all reasons are selected.

Record limit: Use this option to set the number of records to display on a widget. By default 100 records are displayed.

Select media groups: Use this option to filter the records on the basis of media group. By default, all media groups are selected.

Device Status

Device Type: Use this option to set the type of device as RAS Devices, Tape Drives, or Tape Libraries. By default, all the device types are selected.

Policy Status

Policy Status: Use this option to filter the policies by status as Complete, Failed, or Warning. By default, all statuses are selected.

Policy State: Use this option to filter the policies by state as Active, Dormant, Quiesced, or Quiescing. By default, all states are selected.

Event Stream

Select Interval: Use this option to filter the events by time interval as 5 min, 10 min, 30 min, 1 Hr, 8 Hr, 12 Hr, or 24 Hr. By default, the time interval is set to 10 min.

Select Event Type: Use this option to filter the events by type as Error Only, Key Events, or All Events. By default, Error Only event type is selected.

Log Stream

Select Interval: Use this option to filter the logs by time interval as 5 min, 10 min, 30 min, 1 Hr, 8 Hr, 12 Hr, or 24 Hr. By default, the time interval is set to 10 min.

Select Level: Use this option to filter the logs by level as Background, Error, Information, Job Messages, server, or Warnings. By default, all levels are selected.

Select Classes: Use this option to filter the logs by class as Database, devices, Jobs, Media, Plugins, Schedule, System, or UI. By default, all classes are selected.

Running Jobs

Client: Use this option to filter jobs for a particular client.

Plugin: Use this option to filter jobs performed using a particular plug-in.

Policy: Use this option to filter the policy jobs by the policy name.

Job Type: Use this option to filter jobs by job type. You can select backup or restore job types.

Record limit: Use this option to set the number of records to display on a widget. By

default 10 records are displayed.

Duration: Use this option to filter jobs that are completed at a particular duration.

From: To filter jobs from a specific date and time:

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Type the start date, or click the button next to the box, and select the start date.

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Type the start time, or click the button next to the box, and select the start time.

To: To filter jobs up to a specific date and time:

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Type the end date, or click the button next to the box, and select the end date.

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Type the end time, or click the button next to the box, and select the end time.


	NOTE: 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. To hide an option in the chart or clear the selected option, click the corresponding option.

Managing jobs

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Viewing job activity

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Viewing job calendar

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Managing jobs

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Managing job definitions

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Viewing job history

Viewing job activity

You can monitor the progress and status of your jobs from the Job Status page. You can also use this page to manage your jobs and perform various job-related tasks.

To view job activity:

In the Navigation pane, click Job Status.

On the Job Status page, you can view the following information.

Figure 21. Job Status page

Table 65. Job Status page

Item

Description

Job activity charts

This area shows the summary for current jobs, policy jobs, and regular jobs in the form of bar charts:

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Current Activity: The individual bars represent the number of jobs that are in active, waiting, pending, and scheduled states.

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Policies: The individual bars represent the number of policy jobs that have completed successfully, completed with warnings, and failed. The Healthy count of policies shows the number of policy jobs that have completed successfully when all the jobs in the policy are successful. It shows 0 count if one or more jobs in the policy have warnings or errors.

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Regular Jobs: The individual bars represent the number of regular jobs that have completed successfully, completed with warnings, and failed.

You can click a job activity to display the job details for that category in the job activity table. For example, you can click Policies in the Job Activity area to display the policy jobs in the job activity table.

You can click a bar in the activity chart area to display the job details for that category in the activity table. For example, you can click the Active bar in the Current Activity area to display the jobs that are in progress.

To return to the default view type for the activity table, click the View all current activity link.

To hide the job activity statistics on Job Status page, follow these steps:

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In the header pane of NetVault WebUI, click the Settings icon and select Application Settings. Application Settings drawer is displayed on the right- side of the page.

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In the Hide Job Statistics option, select Hide the Job Activity Statistics check box.

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Click OK.

Job activity table

By default, the table lists all current job activities (All activity category).

For the All Activity category, you can view the following information: Start Time (also shows start date), Job Title, Plugin, Client, Type, ID/Instance/Phase (shows the instance and phase), Next runtime (date and time when the next instance is scheduled to run), Progress (current or average transfer rate), Current Status (current status of a job instance), and Last Exit Status (exist status of latest completed job instance).

You can also add or remove following additional columns using the column menu: Policy Name, ID (shows only the job ID), Instance (shows only the job instance), Phase (shows only the job phase), Selection Set, Plugin Options Set, Schedule Set, Source Set, Target Set, Advanced Options Set, Duration (Displays the time in hours: minutes: seconds to complete the operation for backup/restore/reporting). For more information, see Sorting records in NetVault WebUI.

The following job status light icons are displayed in the current status and last exit status columns based on the exit status:

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Red light: Aborted, Died, Failed, Did not run

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Yellow light: Warnings, Stopped, and Waiting for media

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Violet: Acknowledged

The following row background colors are displayed for a job based on current status:

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Green: Running

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Blue: Scheduled

You can change the view type and also filter the records displayed in the table:

Change the view type: To view the job details for a different job category, click the corresponding bar in the activity chart area. For example, to view the jobs that have completed with warnings, click the Warnings bar in the Regular Jobs area.

By default, the table is sorted by Start Time (descending order).

You can sort the table by one or more columns, as required. For more information, see Sorting records in NetVault WebUI.

To set the filter options (For more information on table filter options for Job Status page, see Table 7), view the page size setting, column sort order, applied filters in the table, export the records, or edit table settings, click the icons at the lower- right corner of the table.

For more information, see Customizing tables in NetVault WebUI.


	NOTE: Acknowledged jobs are not part of regular sorting. So, sorting results display normal jobs first and then acknowledged jobs.

You can use the Search option to filter the table data and quickly find entries that contain the specified string in any column values. You can also include wildcards (“?” or “*”) in the search filter string.

To perform a job-related task, click the corresponding button in the Operations pane if the Page Options are set to show the action options as buttons on bottom of page. By default, this option is displayed.

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To perform a job-related task using ‘Actions’ column in the Job Activity table, select a job (s) and click the corresponding context menu icon in the Actions column. Click the job-related action you want to apply.

Alternatively, click a link in the Navigation pane to open a different page.

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