Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Enterprise data reporting

NetWorker software automatically collects data on a continual basis from the NetWorker enterprise to facilitate trend analysis, capacity planning, and problem detection.

The NMC server stores the collected information in the Console database for a specified number of days, as described in Data retention and expiration policies.

The NetWorker software then integrates and processes this data to produce a number of reports on backup status, backup statistics, events, inactive files, hosts, users, and devices. Report categories provides detailed information about the various types of reports.

The following options are available through the NetWorker Console reporting feature:

• Data collection for the entire enterprise or for specific NetWorker servers.
• Creating of various types of reports.
• User preferences for report data, such as font, size, and whether to use bold. This can be useful in I18N environments.
• Selection of columns to display when viewing reports in a table format, and the order in which to display them.
• The ability to save customized reports for repeated use.
• The ability to determine how long collected data should be retained.
• Only NetWorker administrators can modify these time periods.
• The ability to share reports, or restrict the sharing of reports, with other users by giving them access to the reports.
• The ability to hide shared reports of other users when listing reports.
• The ability to run reports from the command prompt.