Data Protection Consecutive Job Failure Report

About Example

Table of Contents

About this Report

When to use this Report

What this Report Contains

How to Generate the Report

Scheduling and Saving a Report

Customizations That You Can Perform With This Report

About this Report

The Data Protection Consecutive Job Failure report displays the latest successful backup job along with the number of consecutive failed jobs that have occurred at a specific date and time based on the clients or storage policies in the CommCell.

When to use this Report

Use this report to verify the consistency and reliability of your backup operations. For example, if backups on a specific client are failing for a determined number of consecutive days, you can set an alert to send you a warning. This will enable you to proactively implement a solution.

What this Report Contains

This report presents the data in the following sections:

Section Description
Job Failure Occurrence Detail Table This table provides the following information for each client or storage policy in the CommCell:
  • Entity name
  • Type, date and time of the latest successful backup
  • Number of job failure occurrences based on the user defined time range
      Consecutive job failures are not counted for storage policies that have changed subclient associations.
  • Date and time for each job failure

How to Generate the Report

1.
  • From the CommNet Browser, click Reports.
  • Under Data Protection Reports, click Consecutive Job Failure.
2.
  • Under Cell Selection, expand the CommCells node and select the CommCell(s) to be included in this report.
  • Click Generate.

Scheduling and Saving a Report

After a report is generated, you can schedule a new report and save it to an specific location as a PDF, excel spreadsheet or MHTML file. Scheduling and saving reports will help you analyze and compare data from your CommCells.

Follow the steps below to create a schedule:

  • Click Schedule from the top of the report window.
  • Type the name of the schedule and enter a description.
  • Click Next.
  • Select the appropriate schedule options. For example:
    • Select the time zone.
    • Select the start date and the frequency to generate the report.
    • Change the Start Time to 9:00 PM
    • Click Repeat Task and configure at which interval the schedule should be repeated.
  • Click Next.
  • Select the file format.
  • Click Save To File to save the report to a local drive or network share.

    Specify the Destination Path for the output file.

  • You can also click Send E-Mail to User(s) and/or User Groups(s) to send the report as an email attachment to a user or user group.
  • Click Finish.

The report will be generated as specified in the schedule task.

Customizations That You Can Perform With This Report

You can further customize the report by using the filters available in the report. To access the filter options, click Filters at the top of the report window as shown in the image. After making your selections, click Generate to update the report.  

The following table describes the available filter options.

Filter Description
Time Range Selection You can adjust the reporting period as follows:
  • Specify the number of days/weeks/months.
  • Exclude the most current data by clearing the Include current period checkbox.
  • Display the backup failures that occurred between a specified time.
Job Failure Occurrence You can specify the following information:
  • Number of job failures per occurrence.
  • Number of failure occurrence details to be displayed (Occurrence # column).
Include Killed Jobs By default, the report does not include information on killed jobs. You can choose to include this information by selecting this option.
Entity Selection By default, the report displays information for the selected client(s) of your CommCell. You can generate a report based on the storage policies of your CommCell by clicking Storage Policy Based.