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  2. NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide
  3. Configuring a VMware Intelligent Policy
  4. Test query screen for VMware
NetBackup™ for VMware Administrator's Guide

Test query screen for VMware

This screen lists the virtual machines that NetBackup discovered in your virtual environment when you select Test query. Later changes in the virtual environment may affect which virtual machines match the query rules. For example: if virtual machines are added, the test results may not be identical to the virtual machines that are selected for backup when the backup runs.

When the next backup runs from this policy, the following occur: NetBackup re-discovers virtual machines, consults the query rules, and backs up the virtual machines that match the rules.

Table: Test query screen

Field

Description

Query

Lists the rules in the Query builder that were used in this test. The rules are specified in the Query Builder on the policy Clients tab.

Test query results

The following status information displays:

  • All

  • Included: The virtual machine matches the rules in the query.

  • Excluded: The virtual machine does not match the rules in the query.

  • Failed: The virtual machine cannot be selected for backup because of a host name problem or other error. Also, the query cannot exclude the virtual machine.

If a VM has the Failed status, an explanation is included. For example:

VM does not have a host name to use as a 
client name, display name =

See Test Query: Failed virtual machines.

The operator IsSet can be used to filter out such virtual machines. More information is available on IsSet.

See Table: Operators in the Operator list.

See The IsSet operator in queries.

List of VMs

The display names of the discovered VMs and their query status.

See Monitor virtual machine backups.

More Information

About automatic virtual machine selection

Configure automatic virtual machine selection

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