PowerProtect Data Manager 19.12 Administration and User Guide

Monitor and view jobs and assets

Use the Protection Jobs, Asset Jobs and System Jobs windows to monitor and view status information for PowerProtect Data Manager operations.

Within these windows, you can export job records and asset activities by using the Export All functionality.

Protection jobs

To view protection jobs and job groups, from the PowerProtect Data Manager UI left navigation pane, select Jobs > Protection Jobs.

The Protection Jobs window opens to display a list of protection jobs and job groups.

Protection jobs include:

Cloud Tier
Cloud Protect
Consolidated Cloud Snapshot Manager jobs
NOTE This job type does not apply to SAP HANA databases.
Export Reuse
Protect
Replicate
Restore

You can monitor and view detailed information for both centralized and self-service backup and restores of database application assets.

NOTE The Cancel and Retry options are not available for self-service jobs that are created by database application agents.

For application assets, the Protect, Restore, and Replicate job types can be monitored at the host or individual asset level. For all other asset types, the Protect and Replicate job types can be monitored at the host or individual asset level.

Asset jobs

The Asset Jobs window allows you to view all jobs for a specific asset or application agent host, and to view the history of protection activities at the asset/agent host level.

To view information about assets for which jobs have been run, from the PowerProtect Data Manager UI left navigation pane, select Jobs > Asset Jobs.

The Asset Jobs window opens to display a list of assets. For application agent assets, you can also view the associated host. You can filter by asset/host name or by job type.

Examples of asset job types include:

Application Host Configuration
Cloud Copy Recover
Cloud Disaster Recovery
Cloud Protect
Cloud Tier
Config
Delete
Disaster Recovery
Export Reuse
Manage
Notify
Protect
Push Update
Replicate
Restore
System
Validate

NOTE The PowerProtect Data Manager UI Dashboard additionally provides details for any successful, partially successful, failed and canceled jobs at the asset/host level.

System jobs

To view system jobs and job groups, from the PowerProtect Data Manager UI left navigation pane, select Jobs > System Jobs.

The System Jobs window opens to display a list of system jobs and job groups.

System jobs include:

Config
Console
Delete
Disaster Recovery
Cloud Disaster Recovery
Cloud Copy Recovery
Discovery
Manage
Notify
System
Validate

System jobs can be monitored at the job group or job level.

Job information

The main Protection Jobs and System Jobs windows lists basic job information.

The following information is available in the Protection Jobs and System Jobs windows.

Table 1. Job information
Column	Description
Job ID	The unique and searchable identifier for the job.
Status	Indicates the current state of the job. A job can be in one of the following states: Success Completed with Exceptions Failed Canceled Unknown Skipped Running Queued Canceling For jobs that do not have a `Success` status, a count of jobs is shown next to the status.
Description	Description of the job.
Policy Name	Name of the protection policy that started the job.
Assets	Number of individual assets or tasks within the job group.
Job Type	Type of protection job or system job.
Asset Type	Type of asset.
Start Time	Date and time that the job is scheduled to begin.
End Time	Date and time that this job completed. This column is not shown by default. To see a complete list of filtering and sorting columns, click .
Duration	Overall duration of the job. This column is not shown by default. To see a complete list of filtering and sorting columns, click .

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