Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

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NetWorker recovery reports

The recovery reports, available from the Reports task pane in the NMC GUI, allow you to view the history of recovery operations that have been performed by a NetWorker Server. Also, the NMC Server checks for new recovery operations and stores the recover statistics in the NMC database every 12 hours, and each time a scheduled backup completes.

You can review reports in both chart and table modes. Table mode set is the default mode. You can generate four different types of recover reports:

Server Summary
Client Summary
Recover Details
Recover Summary Over Time

The NMC Server gathers recover job history every 12 hours and on completion of every scheduled backup action. Recovery reports will not display information about recovery history within 12 hours of when you run the report.

Types of NetWorker recovery reports and configuration

The NetWorker recovery report category includes basic and drill-down reports. The different types of reports that are included within the NetWorker Recover Statistics report category provide recover statistics for each selected NetWorker Server within the enterprise.

The Configuration tab allows you to limit the scope of the report that was selected.

The parameters available within the NetWorker Recovery report category are described in this table. The specific parameters available depend on which NetWorker Recovery Statistics report is selected.

Table 1. NetWorker recovery statistics parameters
Parameter	Description	Options
NetWorker Server	Managed hosts within the enterprise.	Selected server names.
Source Client Name	One or more clients whose data is being recovered.	Selected client names.
Target Client	The client where the data is being recovered to.	Selected target client names.
Initiating Client	The client that started the recover.	n/a
User	Name of the user who started the recover.	Selected user names.
Size	The size of the recover.	n/a
Number of files	For file system recoveries, the number of files in the recover.	n/a
Start time/End time	Limits the report to a specified time range. The date/time format available depends on the language locale of the operating system.	Start time of recover/end time of recover.
Completion Status	Final status of the recover.	Successful Failed

The parameters available for each report type in the NetWorker Recovery Statistics report category are listed in the user interface.

Recovery Statistics basic reports

Within the NetWorker Recovery Statistics report category, choose any of the basic reports that are listed in the user interface. Once a report is chosen, the Configuration tab displays boxes with lists of the selected parameters for that report. To exclude unwanted parameters from the report, delete them from the list. Customizing and displaying report output provides information on selecting and removing parameters.

Recovery Statistics drill-down report: This drill-down report consists of multiple NetWorker Recovery Statistics basic reports, which are connected in a predetermined sequence. Drill-down reports provides general information about drill-down reports.; The configuration parameters for a drill-down report are the same as the parameters for the top-level report in the report sequence. Thus, if the top layer of the drill-down report is a Server Summary report, the configuration parameters are the same as they would be for the basic report, Server Summary.; When a report is chosen, the Configuration tab displays boxes that list the selected parameters for the top-level report.; To exclude unwanted parameters from the report, delete them from the list. Customizing and displaying report output provides information on selecting and removing parameters.
Recover Summary Over Time: Recover Summary Over Time is a drill-down report sequence that allows you to explore the history of recover jobs that were performed by NetWorker Servers over a period.

To generate the Recover Summary Over Time report, you must first specify the same parameters as those in the Server Summary report, which is the first report that is displayed in the sequence.

To drill-down to the client level, perform one of the following, depending on the viewing mode:

When in table mode, double-click any individual row referencing the desired NetWorker Server.
When in chart mode, click anywhere in the chart area of the desired NetWorker Server.

The Client Summary report for the selected NetWorker Server appears. Return to the Server Summary report to select another server to explore.

To drill-down to the Recover Details level, perform one of the following, depending on the viewing mode:

When in table mode, double-click any individual row referencing the desired NetWorker Client.
When in chart mode, click anywhere in the chart area of the desired NetWorker Client.

The Recover Details report for the selected NetWorker Client appears. Return to the Client Summary report to select another client to explore.

Recovery data retention policy and configuration

The retention policy for the recover statistics that are used to generate these reports can be set with the other retention policies currently defined from the Data Retention page in the Reports task pane. The default retention policy for these statistics is one year.