Hi Chad,
Sorry, I think I may have posted this in the wrong thread - I have a few active ones at the moment!
Anyway, we have a load of different pieces of backup software that clients use that we need to report on, but as an example, below are event log alerts that have been configured for Symantec System Recovery Successes and Failures:-
When we report on them, just using a basic table report part as a test, we have found that we have to set the advanced filters up as below, using the Like operator and surrounding the value we are looking for with asterisks to get results returned to us:-
Obviously, this is fairly basic, but it was just to prove that we can grab the events from the event log. What we found when comparing the results from the generated report to manual backup checks was that there were quite a few missing. Sometimes it was better than others, but still a fair few jobs missing. As a test, after seeing posts from others saying that they had similar problems and had started reporting from the agent logs, we created an agent procedure to write backup success or failure entry to the agent logs, when one of these events was recorded, and then use the agent procedure logs dataset to build a report part from, and this seems to be much more successful.
What we would ideally like to do would be amalgamate the successes and failures into one chart and or table, so that as part of monthly reporting for clients, they can see from a simple chart how successful their backups have been over the past month.
For each type of backup software that we have to cover, we are creating event log monitors, as above with the codes/event IDs that each product creates in the event logs, and then writing a backup success or failure entry in the agent procedure logs, so we only need to report on those two entries now really.
The final task will be tackling the backup software that cannot/will not write events to the event log, and backup software used on Mac servers, if it will be possible.