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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Administrator's Guide
  3. Understanding data collection
  4. About data collection in OpsCenter
  5. OpsCenter Data Collector types
Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Administrator's Guide

OpsCenter Data Collector types

The OpsCenter data collectors, collect data from backup product hosts. Each data collector collects data from a single product host. You can configure multiple data collectors on a single OpsCenter Agent host.

You can create data collectors to communicate with the various products, such as Backup Exec. These data collectors collect the specified data type as specified in the configuration. You can specify to collect all or some of the data types for that product. For example, Backup Exec data collector can collect Tape Drive information, Media, Policy and Schedule, Job, or Image.

Note:

Error logs and skipped files are collected as part of job data.

You can enable or disable a data collector.

Table: Data collector types lists the data collectors that you can configure in OpsCenter.

Table: Data collector types

Data Collector type

Description

Veritas Backup Exec Data Collector (Windows only)

Create this data collector to collect data from Backup Exec.

See Configuring Backup Exec data collector.

NetBackup PureDisk Data Collector

Create this data collector to collect data from NetBackup PureDisk.

See Collecting data from PureDisk.

Note:

You can collect the PureDisk data only through the OpsCenter Integrated Agent that is installed with the OpsCenter server. To collect PureDisk data, you need to create a data collector for the Integrated Agent.

Table: Data Types collected for different NetBackup versions lists the data types that OpsCenter collects from different NetBackup versions (including NetBackup Appliance).

Table: Data Types collected for different NetBackup versions

Data Type

NetBackup versions 7.5, 7.6, 7.6.1, 7.7

7.1.x

7.0.1

7.0

NetBackup Appliance

     

(Appliance 2.0, 2.0.1, or 2.0.2 master server or NetBackup 7.1.0.3 master server and later)

Appliance Hardware

Y

Collected only for 7.1.0.3 and later versions

N.A.

N.A.

Y

Audit

Y

Y

N.A.

N.A.

Y

BMR, Skipped Files and Job Throughput

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Catalog

N.A.

N.A.

N.A.

N.A.

N.A.

Client

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Disk

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Error Logs

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

FT

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Host Properties

Y

Y

N.A.

N.A.

Y

Images

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Job

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Media server

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Policy and Schedule

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Retention Level

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Robot

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Scheduled jobs

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Service

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

SLP Image

Y

Y

N.A.

N.A.

Y

Storage service

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Storage unit

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Storage unit Group

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

SubJobs

Y

Y

bpjava protocol

bpjava protocol

Y

Tape drive Information

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Throughput

N.A.

N.A.

N.A.

N.A.

N.A.

Virtual machine

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Volume/Media

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Volume group

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Volume Pool

Y

Y

Y

Y

Y

Table: Data types collected from products other backup productslists the data types that OpsCenter collects from various backup products other than NetBackup.

Table: Data types collected from products other backup products

Data Types

Backup Exec

PureDisk

 

(11.x, 12.x, 2010, 2010 R2, 2010 R3)

(6.2.x, 6.5.x, 6.6, 6.6.0.1, 6.6.0.2, 6.6.0.3, 6.6.1, 6.6.1.2)

Job

Y

Y

Policy and Schedules

Y

Y

Tape drive Information

Y

N

Media

Y

N

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