Which DPA data source to use in order to monitor Networker backup jobs?

We just implemented a Networker backup system with DPA version 19.2. I am trying to create some DPA reports to monitor the backup jobs. DPA has a few of related data sources to provide backup job details. One is the generic ‘Backup Job Details’ and another one is the specific ‘Networker Last Backup Details by Workflow Job’. But both of them seem to have some issues.

First of all, both of them would report multiple entries for the same backup job: entries with different IDs but have same values for the other fields: policy, workflow, action, job, times, storage ID, etc. The only different fields are ID and possibly Workflow Job ID. Probably this is a Networker’s issue, not DPA’s. But the multiple accounting for same jobs would skew the report results.

The data source ‘Networker Last Backup Details by Workflow Job’ is doing better in the issue of multiple entries for the same jobs because it will not show any entries whose ‘Workflow Job ID’ is empty, and more importantly, in most cases, if there are multiple jobs of the same Workflow during the specified time period, it only shows the entry of the latest executed one. As the multiple entries of the same job have the same execution time, only one entry will be shown. But I do find some exceptions.

So the data source ‘Networker Last Backup Details by Workflow Job’ is better to report the backup jobs in one backup cycle, for example daily backups. But if you use it to show weekly backup details where the same workflows are executed on daily basis, you would only get the entries of the last day! (Same thing if you run a job multiple times a day.) Furthermore, for the job like ‘incremental synthetic full’ which will generate itself two actions: ‘incremental backup’ and ‘synthetic full’, this source would only show the information of one action! I don’t know if it is possible for an ‘incremental synthetic full’ job to have a succeed ‘incremental’ action but a failed ‘synthetic full’ action. If it were possible, the final report might not show the failed action.

So which data source do you guys use to monitor Networker backup jobs? Does anyone know why there are multiple ID entries for the same jobs (Probably I should ask this question in the Networker forum.) Or maybe are there other data sources which provide better information? Thanks