Create powershell script or restapi to check the backup status of particular client from client end

Why don't you create simple web portal with status of your backups and have other team check it there?

This is not so easy as all the information is kept on the NW server.

On the client itself you could just verify whether a save process is still running.

But even if all processes are gone you still do not know the result.

So you have several possibilities:

  - use mminfo on the client to query the specific savesets like

        mminfo -s nw_server -q "client=client_name,savetime>=.1days" -r "client,name,level,savetime,sumflags,sumsize" -ot

     but this will probably not show all save sets as no-runs will be missing

  - train these guys to use the Admin GUI where you can also see the current status, errors etc.

  - Use the jobs db (jobquery) to verify the specific group/client details.

    IMHO much to deep for an untrained person.

You can also use the client's "owner notification" to automatically send a specific info once the backup finished.

Bingo,

thanks for the information.

Hrvoje Crvelin :

The idea of yours  is same we are planning to perform. Have you come across any one creating web portal for checking backup status.  Kindly let us know if there is any procedure or document available.

We are also planning DPA web portal, we are using DPA 6.2, but not able to get exact steps to perform.

Regards,

vish

... or use nsrsgrpcomp query from client towards server to check status of the backup for that client based on savegrp info.

vishwanath.krishnappa@anz.com wrote: Hrvoje Crvelin : The idea of yours  is same we are planning to perform. Have you come across any one creating web portal for checking backup status.  Kindly let us know if there is any procedure or document available.

Yes, I think this is most common of home grown solutions.  By checking exit codes (via nsrsgrpcomp for example) you extract return codes (along with timestamps) and place those into some kind of matrix where to rc=0 you assign green color and to the rest whatever you want (for example, if you have archive logs running every 1h and out of 24 runs 2 have failed you can assign yellow instead of red).  For first part, you need NSR to extract data and that should not be big deal.  For second part you need someone skilled with html who can parse results and build into html report.

DPA is always the most convenient easy solution for this. You just need to configure DPA server, and need to install DPA agent on all of your backup server. Discover the backup servers in inventory object, define policy and finish other basic stuffs. Create your own report then (already lot of predefined report will be there). Schedule your report if you want to run. Now how question how end user can access this report. There can be two way -

• Export your scheduled report to .pdf/.csv and keep those in a shared location day wise and give end user the access on that location
• You can write a small perl script to call your specific DPA report with x no of argument using REST api

Here is a quick guide how you can use REST API in DPA

EMC Data Protection Advisor REST API Part1 - YouTube

Please give me more details if you face any specific issues while using in DPA.

Now considering the fact that you cant use any 3rd part tool . you want to use your own reporting mechanism then please state me your requirement clearly from below case/report type -

I can provide you more details on basis of your requirement.

Thanks & Regards,

Shubhadip Datta