Data Protection Coverage 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

Additional Reports

Data Protection Detail Report

Data Protection Subclient Detail Report

About this Report

The Data Protection Coverage report displays the status of backups (success and failures) across multiple clients.

When to use this Report

This report is useful to analyze whether clients have completed at least one successful backup. This also includes data replication operations.

What this Report Contains

This report presents the data in the following sections:

Sections Description
Subclient Status Chart This chart provides a high level overview of coverage for the following:
  • Selected CommCells
  • Specified time range

The following information is displayed in the chart:

  • Completed
  • Failed or Killed
  • No Activity
Subclient Status Table This table provides a more detailed view of the chart. Information is displayed for each of the client entities such as applications, databases, instances, backup sets, and subclients.

The following information is displayed in the table:

  • No Activity
  • Job Failures
  • Whether it has coverage or partial coverage
  • No Data (For Coverage)

How to Generate the Report

1.
  • From the CommNet Browser, click Reports.
  • Under Data Protection Reports, click Coverage Report.
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 by selecting the Frequency drop-down list. Based on the selected frequency, you can also:
  • Specify the number of days/weeks/months/years.
  • Exclude the most current data by clearing the Include current period checkbox.
  • Display the backup coverage between a specified time.
Override CommCell Weekend configuration By default, the report treats Friday, Saturday and Sunday as the WeekEnd category. You can list weekend days separately by selecting Show Friday, Saturday and Sunday as separate days.
Include Uninstalled Clients By default, the report includes information on uninstalled clients. You can choose to exclude this information by clearing this option.
Include Deleted Subclients By default, the report includes information on deleted subclients. You can choose to exclude this information by clearing this option.
Include Subclients Information By default, the report includes subclient information. You can choose to exclude further subclient information by clearing this option.
Exclude Command Line Subclients By default, the report excludes subclients that were created using the command line interface. You can choose to include this information by clearing this option.
Chart Options By default, the chart displays stacking bars with gridlines. You can change the chart display from the Chart Type drop-down list.

You can also choose to display one or more coverage status by selecting them from Include Status.

Draw Table Using By default, the table is displayed in image format. You can choose to view the table in text format by clicking Text. This is useful when colors cannot be identified e.g., viewing a black and white printout of the report.
Cell Selection You can refine your cell selection by expanding the CommCells and Cell-Client Groups nodes:
  • Select multiple CommCells and/or Cell-Client Groups.
  • Select a specific client and/or client group from a CommCell.

Additional Reports

The following reports are not considered primary reports as they derive from the Data Protection Coverage report.

Data Protection Detail Report

This report provides a comprehensive list of all the backup operations for a given date. You can access this report by clicking an active bar/grid from the graphs in the main report.

You can customize this report in the following ways:

  • By filtering the backup jobs based on their status using the Filters from the top of the window.
  • By changing the default tree view of the listed jobs to a Table View.

If you require further information on a particular backup job, double-click the job from the list to access the Job Detail dialog box.

Data Protection Subclient Detail Report

This report includes information on the date, time, size and type of the latest backup operations for a given date. You can access this report by clicking a bar/grid that indicates No Activity (or No Coverage) from the graphs in the main report.

You can customize this report by changing the default tree view of the listed jobs to a Table View.