Media Management MediaAgent 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 Media Management MediaAgent report displays detailed status information for all the MediaAgents in a CommCell as well as details on their associated library and drive controllers.

When to use this Report

Use this report to review the condition of each MediaAgent in a CommCell, such as whether or not a MediaAgent is active, operational or if a failure has occurred. This report provides all the necessary MediaAgent details to perform troubleshooting tasks.

What this Report Contains

This report presents the data in the following sections:

Section Description
<MediaAgent Details> The pie chart displays the total number (and percentage) of MediaAgents that are operational and not operational in the selected CommCell.

The table displays the following information for all the MediaAgents in the selected CommCell:

  • MediaAgent status (and failure reason if not operational).
  • Amount of data written in the last week.
  • Software revision
Library Controllers The table displays the following information for all the library controllers in the selected CommCell:
  • Name of associated MediaAgent, library (configured on the MediaAgent), and controller
  • Library status (and failure reason if not operational).
  • SCSI address
  • Active status, user enabled status and OS accessibility status.
Drive Controllers The table displays the following information for all the disk libraries in the selected CommCell:
  • Name of associated MediaAgent, library and drive (configured on the MediaAgent), and controller
  • Drive status (and failure reason if not operational)
  • SCSI address
  • Active status, user enabled status and OS accessibility status.

How to Generate the Report

1.
  • From the CommNet Browser, click Reports.
  • Under Media Management Reports | Legacy Reports, click MediaAgent Report.
2.
  • Under CommCell Selection, add the CommCells you want to include 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
CommCell Selection You can refine your selection by adding or removing CommCells from the Selected pane.
Column Selection You can refine your selection by adding or removing columns from the Selected pane.

You can also exclude the pie chart from the report by clearing the Include Pie Chart option.