CommCell Summary

Use this window to obtain all the information for each CommCell that is part of the CommNet domain. The Data Protection Activity section can be used to quickly obtain the status of all the scheduled jobs in the previous data protection window on a daily basis for all clients in the CommCell or for a selected client group in the CommCell. This section is also useful to diagnose the problems that have occurred, such as:

• A large number of incomplete jobs, or a large number of failed attempts from various jobs may indicate resource contention.
• A large number of incomplete jobs with multiple attempts may affect the ability to meet the data protection window
• The Data Size Chart can help you quickly identify any deviations from the regular data protection size, based on the individual application type.
• The Job Activity Chart helps you to identify the application with a large number of failures. This will help you take corrective actions, where necessary. You can click on the chart to determine the failed, incomplete or completed jobs.
• The Job Activity Detail table can be used to determine the failure status of jobs from any client. You can click on the table to determine the failed, incomplete or completed jobs.

General

This section displays the following information:

• Status of the CommCell - whether it is reachable
• CommNet Agent Version
• Time of the last Job Update
• Interface name
• Operating System
• Local time on the CommCell
• Registration date and time
• Category
• Time of the last Media Management Update
• CommServe Version and Service Pack

  If installed, the Service Pack information will be displayed using one of the following conventions:

  SP<number>

  Example: SP1

  All the updates in the Service Pack, and additional updates not included in the Service Pack, have been installed on the computer.

  SP<number> (Missing Updates)

  Example: SP1 (Missing Updates)

  Some of the updates in the Service Pack have not been installed on the computer.

• CommCell installation date and time
• CommCell time zone
• Whether data protection is enabled
• Primary Server - whether the CommNet Server is designated as the Primary Server for this CommCell. If value displayed is No, the CommNet Server is registered as the secondary server for this CommCell.

You can also view a list of hardware guidelines by clicking the <CommCell hardware classification> Hardware upgrade recommended hyperlink, if a hardware upgrade is recommended.

CommCell Clients

This section provides a quick view of the total number of clients available in the CommCell.

You can obtain a list of clients that are unreachable by clicking the Not Reachable hyperlink and clients that are uninstalled by clicking the Uninstalled hyperlink.

Data Protection Activity

This section provides a comprehensive view of all data protection jobs that were supposed to run in the previous Data Protection Window defined in the Cell Configuration (Data Protection Window). This can be used for daily administration because it also includes jobs that are currently active. You have the option to view data protection jobs for all clients or a specific client group in the CommCell.

You can also display the data protection activity for the days by increasing the number in Get Data Protection activity for n days box. For example, you can increase the number of days when you wish to monitor the activity on a long weekend which may be more than 2 days.

The Data Protection Activity monitor provides the state of all data protection jobs in the CommCell or in a specific CommCell Client Group, based on the agent type.

Within each agent the following lists are also provided:

• List of jobs that have completed
• List of jobs that have Failed or Killed
• List of jobs that are currently running
• List of incomplete or stopped jobs which is further sub-divided into incomplete jobs with some failed attempts and incomplete jobs with no failed attempts.

If the CommCell schedules are setup and sufficient resources are available you would expect to see all the jobs as completed. However, if the backup window is not met you would see incomplete jobs. Thus, the Data Protection Activity monitor helps you to easily identify the problem areas, by analyzing the incomplete jobs with failed attempts.

Data Size Type

Data size can be displayed in terms of application size or media size.

• Application Size

  If selected, data will be presented in terms of application size, which indicates the amount of data protected during backup operations.

• Media Size

  If selected, data will be presented in terms of media size, which is the amount of data written to the media; this includes backup, encrypted, compressed, and deduplicated data if applicable.

The Data Protection Activity Monitor has the following components:

• Data Size Chart:

  A bar graph that displays the amount of data that has been protected from all the jobs that have been completed with in the window, for each agent.

• Job Activity Chart

  A bar graph displays the number of jobs that were completed, failed or killed, currently running and incomplete or stopped.

• Job Activity Detail

  A table that lists all the jobs based on each agent.

  Click on the plus sign to expand and view a list of clients associated with each agent to analyze the total number of jobs that have been initiated.

  You can also analyze the jobs that are running, incomplete or incomplete after multiple attempts, and also jobs that have completed, failed or killed, and stopped.

For the above components, click any bar or any number except zero (in the Job Activity table) to see a Data Protection Detail Report with a listing of individual data protection operations. In the Data Protection Detail Report, you can double-click any entry to access the Job Detail screen, which provides more space for Failure Reason, Attempt and Copy information to be displayed.

Storage Resources

This section provides a quick view of all the storage resources within the domain.

You can also obtain a list of Media Agents, Libraries or drives that are not operational by clicking the respective hyperlinks.

Schedule Forecast

This section provides a list of full data protection operations that are scheduled in the next 24 hours in all the CommCells.