Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Enterprise events monitoring

The NetWorker Management Console (NMC) makes the administration of servers more efficient by providing a centralized means of monitoring activity throughout an enterprise.

You can view details of current NetWorker and Data Domain systems. Managing various servers in the Enterprise provides details on adding hosts to be monitored.

Information that can be monitored includes activities and operations that are related to devices and libraries, and events that require user intervention.

An event signals that user intervention is required. For example, if a NetWorker server needs a new tape, the server alerts users to the situation by posting an event to the Console window.

NetWorker generates an event that is based on various factors, including the following examples:

• Software or hardware errors that require user intervention to resolve.
• Failed backups.
• Drive ordering or serial number mismatch issues.

  A description of the problem is provided, along with a corrective action to fix the problem.

• Capacity monitoring, such as reaching the space threshold on the deduplication node
• Inability to poll a host for event monitoring or report generation.
• Impending expiration of a license or enabler code that is managed by the License Manager.

Some situations do not result in the generation of an event. For example, when a license managed by the NetWorker Console (instead of by the License Manager) approaches its expiration date. In this situation, a message is recorded in the NetWorker logs, but an event is not generated until the expired license causes a backup to fail. Check the Administration window from time to time for important messages.