Collect historic data on-demand
You can follow this procedure to run an on-demand historic data collection of the supported vendor policies and load historic events on the NetBackup IT Analytics Portal.
Ensure you have an existing supported vendor policy configured with a Data Collector and the Data Collector must be online before you initiate a on-demand historic data collection.
Table: Supported vendors for historic data collection
Vendor name | Supported collection |
|---|---|
Veritas NetBackup | Date range |
Cohesity | Time period (in hours) and date range |
To initiate a on-demand historic data collection:
- Select Admin > Data Collection > Collector Administration. All Data Collectors are displayed.
- Click Expand All to browse for a supported vendor policy or use Search.
- Select the supported data collector policy from the list.
- From the action bar, click Run. A dialog allowing you to select individual probes and servers to run the collection is displayed. See the vendor specific content for details on probes and servers.
A dialog allowing you to specify the collection type is displayed.
- Select Historic Collection and specify other details based on the field descriptions below:
NetBackup Primary Servers (for NetBackup policies)
Management Server Addresses (for Cohesity policies)
Select the servers from which the policy must collect the historic data.
Probes
Applicable probes are enabled by default.
If you disable any probes, ensure you keep at least one probe in enabled state.
Time Period
The on-demand function retrieves historic data collected within the duration specified under this.
Lookback Hours (for Cohesity policies)
Enter the duration in hours. The moment you initiate the on-demand collection, historic data from the collection performed within the Lookback Hours is retrieved, based on the policy and the probe.
Start Date and Time
Specify the start date and time of the historic data collection.
End Date and Time
Specify the end date and time of the historic data collection.
Client Names (for NetBackup policies)
Specify one or more client names for NetBackup historic collection. Separate the names by commas.
This field appears if only one primary server is selected in NetBackup Primary Servers.
Notes
Enter your comments about the on-demand historic data collection.
Note:
The Start Date/Time and End Date/Time are calculated based on the time zone of the server specified while adding the primary server on the policy screen. Also, the Scheduled Collection interface remains disabled until the on-demand collection is in progress.
- Click Start. Data is collected just like a scheduled run plus additional logging information for troubleshooting. You can monitor the collection progress of the run through Collection Status page. The collection is queued if another data collection run is in progress.
