Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

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About the Monitoring window

On the Administration window taskbar, select Monitoring to view the details of current NetWorker server activities and status, such as:

Policies and actions.
Cloning, recovering, synthetic backups, checkpoint restart backups, and browsing of client file indexes.
Alerts and log messages, and operations that are related to devices and jukeboxes.

While the Monitoring window is used primarily to monitor NetWorker server activities, it can also be used to perform certain operations. These operations include starting, stopping, or restarting a workflow.

The Monitoring window includes a docking panel that displays specific types of information. Select the types of information you want to view from the docking panel.

A portion of the Monitoring window, which is known as the task monitoring area, is always visible across all windows. A splitter separates the task monitoring area from the rest of the window. You can click and move the splitter to resize the task monitoring area. The arrow icon in the upper right corner of the Monitoring window allows you to select which tasks you want to appear in this view.

Smaller windows appear within the Monitoring window for each window. Each smaller window, once undocked, is a floating window and can be moved around the page to customize the view. You can select multiple types from the panel to create multiple floating windows that can be viewed simultaneously. The following table describes the various types of information available in the docking panel, and the details each one provides.

Table 1. Monitoring window panel This table describes the Monitoring window panel.
Window	Information provided
Policies/Actions	The Policies tab provides you with status information about all configure policies and the associated workflows and actions. The Actions tab provides you with status information for all actions. Policies/Actions pane provides more information.
Sessions	Allows you to customize whether to display all session types, or only certain session types. The information that is provided depends on which session type you select. For example, if you select Save Sessions, the window lists clients, save sets, groups, backup level, backup start time, duration of the backup, devices, rate, and size. Sessions window provides more information. NOTE:The size displayed in the NMC GUI is as per the digital calculator, that is, 1 MB is equal to 1000 KB (decimal).
Alerts	Lists the priority, category, time, and message of any alerts. Alerts pane provides more information. NOTE:Alerts displayed in the NMC Monitoring page is from the server and cannot be cleared from the GUI.
Devices	Lists devices, device status, storage nodes, libraries, volumes, pools, and related messages. Devices pane provides more information.
Operations	Lists the status of all library and silo operations, including nsrjb operations that are run from the command prompt. Also lists user input, libraries, origin, operation data, operation start time, duration of the operation, progress messages, and error messages. When displaying Show Details from the Operations window, the length of time that the window is displayed depends on the value that is typed in the Operation Lifespan attribute on the Timers tab of the Properties dialog box for the corresponding library. To access library properties, click Devices in the taskbar. By default, this pane is hidden.
Log	Lists messages that are generated by the NetWorker server, including the priority of each message, the time the message was generated, the source of the message, and the category. Log window provides more information.