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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section VIII. Monitoring and reporting
  4. Monitoring NetBackup activity
  5. Setting Activity Monitor options
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Setting Activity Monitor options

The following procedure describes how to set the options for the Activity Monitor in the NetBackup Administration Console.

To configure options for the Activity Monitor

  1. In the NetBackup Administration Console, in the menu bar, click View > Options and select the Activity Monitor tab to access configurable options for the Activity Monitor.
  2. The following options are available to receive a confirmation warning.

    Confirm job deletions

    Prompts the user with a confirmation dialog box when a job is deleted.

    Confirm job cancellations

    Prompts the user with a confirmation dialog box when a job is canceled.

    Confirm stop daemons

    Enable to display a confirmation dialog box when a daemon is stopped.

    To discontinue further delete, cancel, or stop daemon confirmations, enable the In the future, do not show this warning option.

    Maximum details windows

    Specifies the maximum number of Activity Monitor job details, daemon details, and the process details windows that can be displayed at one time.

    Automatically refresh display

    Enable to refresh data on the Daemons tab and the Processes tab and the job details elapsed time. Other Jobs tab data refreshes independently of the Auto Refresh setting.

    Enter the rate (in seconds) at which data refreshes in the Daemons tab and the Processes tab.

    Show error logs in Activity Monitor

    Enable to view NetBackup error logs in the Error Logs tab in the Activity Monitor.

    You can customize the view of error logs in Activity Monitor by configuring the following options:

    • Select the option from the drop-down menu to configure Show error logs for. The default selection is Error and above which lists all the errors and critical logs. You can select to view specific logs like critical logs, information logs, errors, and warnings.

    • Select the time window next to Show error logs for last to configure viewing logs in the selected time frame. Default time window is set for last 24 hours.

    • Set the auto-refresh time by specifying the Refresh display every option, in minutes. The default refresh time is set to 15 minutes.

    Show error logs in Job details window

    Enable viewing error logs in the Job Details window. When this option is checked, after clicking a specific Job ID, you can view the log entries in the Job Details window in a separately generated Error Logs tab. In the Job Details window, the errors and critical logs that are specific to the selected job entry, are shown.

  3. Click OK to close the dialog box and apply any changes.

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