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Backup Status Reporting

1997-07-08 11:37:56
Subject: Backup Status Reporting
From: Ken Rackow <Ken_Rackow AT EM.FCNBD DOT COM>
Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 10:37:56 -0500
     We have installed ADSM V2.1.9 on an MVS server, and back up about 20
     Netware, NT, UNIX, and OS/2 clients nightly.  Currently, every
     morning, I look at the "Days Since Last Backup Completion" field of
     the File Spaces section of the Admin GUI to determine the completion
     status of last night's backups.  I know that logging information is
     also available as ASCII text on the file systems of each of the
     individual clients, which would also tell me if the previous night's
     backups completed successfully.

     Is there any simple way to automate backup status reporting for
     individual clients?  I know that I could write a combination of batch
     files and scripts that would extract the relevant data and write it to
     one file somewhere, but that would still require someone to actually
     remember to look at the file or read an e-mail.  Is there a way to see
     successful (or the rare unsuccessful) completion information at the
     MVS console?  If there was, Data Center Operations staff could inform
     ADSM administrators if and when there was a problem.  The same
     personnel, at any given time, would know which backups were running,
     or had completed, without having to enter an admin session.  From
     looking at the documentation, it looks like I can see client start and
     finish information, but not whether the backup was successful.

     Has anyone else had to deal with this issue?
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