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Customizations That You Can Perform With This Report
The Data Retention Forecast and Compliance Report displays information about a history of data protection jobs, associated media, data aging forecast, and recyclable media based on the selected filter criteria. Note that regardless of the filter options selected for this report, the report always checks retention in days.
You can use the Data Retention Forecast and Compliance Report to review information related to backup jobs, associated media, job aging information, and the amount of disk space for storage policy copies. This report is useful if you need to know:
This report presents the data in the following sections:
Sections | Description |
CommServeDR |
This table provides information about each storage policy. There is a separate
table for each storage policy. Information displayed in the table includes:
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Disk Media Summary |
This table provides information about each disk library. Information displayed
in the table includes:
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Non-Disk Media Summary |
This table provides information about each non-disk library. Information
displayed in the table includes:
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You can further customize the report by using the tabs that are available in the Report Selection dialog box. The following table describes the available report options for this report.
Options | Description |
General |
You can set the the report to display information about media, data
types and jobs. Optional report information includes:
You can also choose to sort the report information by client or storage policy. If you select Client, the Client tab becomes available, and the Storage Policy tab becomes unavailable. If you select Storage Policy, the Storage Policy tab becomes available, and the Client tab becomes unavailable. |
Client |
You must select the Client option on the General tab to make this tab
available.
You can set the report to display information for all computers from the CommCell or select individual clients with the Modify option. You can set the report to include all agent types in the CommCell, or select individual agent types with the Modify option. |
Storage Policy |
You must select the Storage Policy option on the General tab to make
this tab available.
You can set the report to display information for all storage policies in the CommCell or select individual storage policies. |
Output |
You can set the report output to appear in one of several formats and save it to a variety of locations. Set any of the following options:
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The following table describes additional operations that you can perform with the reports feature:
Option | Description | Related topics |
Saving the Report Output |
You can save the report output to a specified location.
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Saving a Report as a Template |
You can save the report settings as a template in the CommCell Console, and then run the report at any time.
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Generating a Report from a Template |
You can generate a report from a template at any time.
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Modifying a Report Template |
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Cloning a Report Template |
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Deleting a Report Template |
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Setting a Report Alert |
This option allows users or user groups to get an automatic notification when a report
is created. If the report output consists of multiple text files, they are
compressed into a CAB file and sent as an attachment. Text output that consists
of a single file is sent according to your settings. Follow the steps given below to set up the criteria to raise notifications/alerts:
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Refer to Alerts. |
Saving a Report as a Script |
The Command Line Interface allows you to generate reports from the command line. The commands can be executed from the command line or can be integrated into scripts. You can generate command line scripts for specific operations in the CommCell Console by using the Save As Script option. To create an XML script that generates a report:
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Refer to Command Line Interface. |