Does anyone have any ideas on how to produce an easy report to show successes and failures for non-kaseya backups?
Our clients use a variety of products for their backups, and most of them (Acronis seems to be a particular problem) we are able to report on now.
We are getting some info from event logs, and where this does not seem that successful, are getting the agent to write an event to the agent log when certain events are recorded to the event log, and are reporting on this data instead.
The reports that we are running use a combination of event ids and descriptions to extract the information we require, as many of the products use the same or similar codes for reporting success or failures, and then it is down to filtering the description field to decide whether the job has been successful or not.
What we would now like to do is to be able to run a report once a day that pretty much has three columns - the machine ID, success and failure.
Some machines run more than one job, so this would have to be tackled after getting this report to run, if it is possible, but as most of our success and failure results are derived from the description field, the success and failure columns are both based on description, meaning that successes and failures are reported in both of these columns when running the report as there does not seem to be a way to add the same column twice into a report and get results from one filter to show in one description column and results from another filter to show up in another column.
Ideally, we would like icons such as a tick or a cross to show in a result column, but we realise that this is not possible.
Does anyone have any suggestions?