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Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Reporting Guide

Last Published: 2021-01-01

Product(s): NetBackup (9.0)

Virtual Client Summary report

The Virtual Client Summary report shows details of all virtual clients of a NetBackup master server. Using this report, you can determine whether these virtual clients were backed up by NetBackup or not. Thus, you can report on the virtual clients that need to be protected. It also shows at a glance that last time the client was backed up. .

You can also drill down in this report to see the job details of a specific virtual client.

OpsCenter can poll the vCenter or Hyper-V server to determine what systems have been configured and compare that with the NetBackup policies that have been created. This helps to track those virtual machines that are not being protected by any NetBackup polices.

Note:

Cheking that the virtual machine is added in the is possible opnly when the policy is manually created or when successful backup has happened for the virtual machine.

Figure: Virtual Client Summary report shows a sample view of the Virtual Client Summary report.

Figure: Virtual Client Summary report

The sample report shows an example of vCenter server that has a number of VMs configured. Most of the virtual clients do not exist in any NetBackup policy and need to be added or protected. It also shows at a glance the last time the system was backed up (from the Last Successful Backup Time column).

The Virtual Client Summary report shows the following columns:

Virtual Server Name	Name of the virtual server host such as VMware or Hyper-V server
Data Store	Data store associated with the virtual client. Data Store is where virtual machine configuration files are stored.
Host	Name of the backup host.
Virtual Client Name	Display name of the virtual client running on a virtual server. Multiple virtual clients may have the same IP address. But they can be identified by their UUIDs. UUID is a unique identifier of a virtual client. Note: Click the virtual client name link to view its job details.
UUID	BIOS UUID for the virtual client.
VM Host Name
Instance ID
IP Address	IP address of the virtual client
Type	Type of the virtual server that this client belongs to, such as VMware or Hyper-V
Server Name	Name of the NetBackup Master Server, which backs up this virtual client This field is shown blank if this virtual client is not backed up by any NetBackup master server
Exists in a Policy	This status field that describes whether backing up this virtual client is defined in any NetBackup policy or not If a NetBackup Master Server backs up this client, this field displays "Yes". If it shows "No", it means that this client should be backed up and be protected.
Last Backup Time	Time when this virtual client was backed up last This field displays `'-'` if the client is not defined in a backup policy or it is yet to be backed up.

The following are details for the Virtual Client Summary report:

Report Name	Virtual Client Summary
Report Category	Client Reports
Where to Locate	Report > Report Templates > Client Reports > Virtual Client Summary
Report Purpose	This report shows details of the VMware or Hyper-V servers that you have configured with NetBackup. It also shows whether these virtual machines are protected by NetBackup or not.
Supported products	NetBackup, NetBackup Master Appliance
Applicable View	Master Server, Client
Report Display	Tabular
Drill down report	Yes See Virtual Client Job Details.
Can be scheduled	Yes
Supported export formats	PDF, CSV, TSV, XML, HTML
Mapping with NOM report	All Reports > Standard Reports > Client > Virtual Client Summary

The following table shows the filters for Virtual Client Summary report and how you can use these filters to view specific data in the report.

Filter	Column	Description
View		Select a view to show data for the selected view in the report. By default All My Views is selected.
Master Server	Master Server	Select one or more master servers to view data for the virtual clients backed up by the selected master servers in the report. All master servers that are added to the OpsCenter console are shown in the Value dropdown list.

Example of filter usage: You may run the Virtual Client Summary report for a specific client view to view details for the specific clients.