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Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2017-11-30

Product(s): NetBackup (8.1)

Data Collector Wizard settings

Complete the Product Selection fields as follows:

Table: Product Selection settings

Setting	Description
Select Product	Select the name of the product from which you want to collect data. For example, Veritas Backup Exec. The options available in the Select Product drop-down list depends on the Agent operating system family that you have selected while creating the respective Agent. For Backup Exec, only Windows option is available, as it supports only Windows operating system.
Target host name	Enter the name of the product host from which you want to collect backup data.

Setting

Description

Select Product

Select the name of the product from which you want to collect data. For example, Veritas Backup Exec.

The options available in the Select Product drop-down list depends on the Agent operating system family that you have selected while creating the respective Agent.

For Backup Exec, only Windows option is available, as it supports only Windows operating system.

Target host name

Enter the name of the product host from which you want to collect backup data.

Complete the Data Collector: Details fields as follows:

Table: Data Collector: Details settings

Setting	Description
Select Product	Displays the name of the product from which this data collector collects data. You need to specify the product name when you create the data collector. For example: Veritas Backup Exec.
Target Host Name	Displays the name of the product host from which this data collector collects data. You need to specify the product name when you create the data collector.
Data Collection Status	By default, the data collector status is Enabled. You can disable the data collection by changing the status.
User Name	Enter the user name.
Password	Enter the user password.
Product Version	Select the product version.
Blackout Period Start Time	Select the start time of a blackout period. The data is not collected during the time that is specified in Blackout Period Start Time and Blackout Period End Time.
Blackout Period End Time	Select the end time of a blackout period. The data is not collected during the time that is specified in Blackout Period Start Time and Blackout Period End Time.
Configuration Status	Select this check box to collect the associated data type.
Collectible Data Type	Lists the data types that can be collected from a product host. The data types vary depending on the product that you are collect data from. See OpsCenter Data Collector types.
Collection Interval (sec)	Enter the Collection Interval in minutes, hours, and days. Collection interval is the time interval that you want to set between the two consecutive data collections. For example: You have set the Collection Interval to 15 Minutes. The first data collection starts at say 9:00 A.M. till all backup records are collected and ends at 11:00 A.M. The next data collection starts at 11:15 A.M. after 15-minutes interval .
Last Successful Data Load	States whether last data load was successful or not. See Viewing OpsCenter Agent status.