Using the Activity monitor to monitor virtual machine backups

You can use the NetBackup Activity monitor to keep track of the VMware virtual machines that a policy backs up.

To monitor virtual machine backups

On the left, click Activity monitor.
Note each job as it appears by row.
If the policy selects virtual machines automatically (based on a query), the backup consists of three generations of jobs:
- The first job discovers the virtual machines. This job is labeled Backup. (This job is unique to policies that use a query to select virtual machines.)
- The discovery (Backup) job starts a child job to take a VMware snapshot of the virtual machine. A snapshot job is started for each virtual machine. Each of these jobs is labeled Snapshot.
- Each snapshot job starts a child job to back up the virtual machine. A backup job is started for each virtual machine. Each of these jobs is labeled Backup.
  The job flow is as follows:
```
discovery job --> snapshot job --> backup job
```
To trace the discovery job to the virtual machine backup jobs, note the Job ID and the Parent job ID columns.
Click on the job and click Details tab.