Job Summary Report

Question

Hi,

Is there a way to remove failed jobs that have been rerun successfuly from the job summary report? For example, if a job ran and failed and was then successfully rerun this would just be reported as one completed and one successful job with no failures. The deduplicate operator seems perfect for this but will not work with the sources within the job summary report. Have I missed a standard report or do have I to do some pretty significant customisation?

Thanks.

DavidRussell1 · Accepted Answer

Hi,

You are correct that there is no standard report to do this however the customizations to the standard report should be fairly simple. You would need to:

-open the Backup Job Summary report in the Report Editor and open the report item so that you can see the data sources and operators

- replace the first "Backup Statistics" data source and "Dummy" operator with the "Num Backup Jobs After Deduplication" data source which is in the Backup category. You will need to change the Interval on the data source (in the Times tab) to "No Interval" and change the Field label to be "Completed"

- modify the "Dummy" operator connected to the second "Backup Statistics" data source to also return the "Size" field by taking the tick out of the "Drop" column for that row

- replace the third "Backup Statistics" data source and "Dummy" operator with the "Num Failed Backup Jobs After Deduplication" data source which is in the Backup category. You will need to change the Interval on the data source (in the Times tab) to "No Interval" and change the Field label to be "Failed"

Kind Regards

David

David Russell

EMC Technical Support

charvey1 · Answer

Thanks David, this gave me exactly what I needed. Regards, Chris

charvey1 · Answer

Hi David,

This works perfectly where the original and rerun job remain indentical. However, I have an example where the rerun job changes - the original has 8 separate filesystems in one job but the rerun is split into 8 separate jobs, one for each filesystem. Is there anyway to reconcile the 8 reruns to the original job so that if all 8 are successful it is not reported as a error?

Thanks

Chris

DavidRussell1 · Answer

Hi Chris,

Unfortunately not as DPA looks at the job field (which contains the name), along with some others, to determine if they are the same job and whether to deduplicate or not. If these don't match then DPA has no way of determining it is the same job and that it needs to deduplicate.

Thanks

David

David Russell

EMC Technical Support

charvey1 · Answer

Hi David,

Thanks for the prompt reply. Would I be correct in assuming this would also impact other reports, for exampe job being succussful/unsuccessful would be one of the criteria used by exposure reports? Just trying to explore other options in producing a report that would list clients not backed up in the previous day but not based on jobs due to the above problem.

Thanks again.

Regards,

Chris

DavidRussell1 · Answer

Hi Chris,

Yes this could affect other reports. For the exposure reports they will look back to the last successful full run of each job to see what the exposure is. So if the job was shown as Failed with a different job name, then it will mark the exposure as there, as it isn't able to determine there has been a subsequent successful retry, as the job name is different.

Thanks

David

David Russell

EMC Technical Support

charvey1 · Answer

Hi David, Thanks for the information. Regards, Chris

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