I've had this happen on the Admin GUI when I forgot to change the date range
for my Event query and it was querying old events which had purged from the
event log.

> ----------
> From:         Janie Pendergraft[SMTP:jpenderg AT STJ DOT COM]
> Sent:         Friday, October 02, 1998 5:58 AM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Status-Uncertain
>
> This morning when I came in and checked the status of last nights backups
> in the administrative client, instead of saying completed or failed etc.
> they all said uncertain under the status field. I have never seen this
> before. When I went to check the log files it shows where ADSM  completed
> and the files on our servers were backed up fine. The log files show me
> the
> time and date and they all look normal like any other day. Has anyone else
> ever seen this statement uncertain in the status field of the
> backup/archive events. We did not do anything unusual on our ADSM server
> yesterday.
>
> Janie Pendergraft
> St. John's Regional Medical Center
> Joplin, MO.
> jpenderg AT stj DOT com
>