Job Status Summary
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The Job Status Summary report shows a bar chart that aggregates jobs that succeeded, failed, or produced warning messages. This high-level summary provides drill down access to the Job Summary report, where you'll find specific status messages and scheduling information. This report is also a component of the Backup Server Performance Dashboard which helps administrators evaluate the reasons for slowness or bad performance in the backup servers or appliances.
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When you generate this report, several Report Designer options enable you to narrow the scope of the report and also to define how the data will be displayed. Refer to the IT Analytics User Guide for Capacity Manager Primary Settings and Backup Manager Primary Settings. In particular, note the and settings that are available for this report.
Use this procedure to track down backup failure details:
View the Job Status Summary report.
Click on the top section of a bar in the bar chart to drill down to details.
The top portion of the bar indicates backup error events, the middle section reports event warnings, and the bottom represents successful backups. Note that often the partial backups represent your biggest exposure, so drilling down on the warning events can help you identify and resolve issues.
See Job Summary Report .
In the Job Summary report, view the Activity Type column for backup log messages.
In the Job Summary report, click on the to view the details.
See Job Details Report .
, This report shows additional message-log entries. Be sure to scroll down to the bottom of the list to find backup attempts and notes related to the job.
Related reports:
See Job Summary Report .
This tabular report provides details related to the data represented in the bars shown in the Job Status Summary chart. You can drill down to the job summary details from the Job Status Summary bar chart.
See Backup Status SLA.
In addition to job status, this report provides indicators showing a trend line of event successes.
The Job Status Summary provides the following information:
Table: Job Status Summary
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Drillable Stacked Bar Chart |
Click on any of the bar sections to go to a summary. See Job Summary Report . for the backups corresponding to the time period and event status for the bar that you selected. The top portion of each bar indicates backup error events, the middle section reports event warnings, and the bottom section represents successful backups. |
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Pop-up Details |
Mouse-over any of the bars or symbols on the chart to display pop-ups that provide details. |
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Job Failures |
Roll-over the event failures to view as a percentage of the total events for the selected time period. |
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Job Success |
Displays the number of total job successes as well as the percentage. |