Trying to grep that stuff out of the logs is a nightmare. And it doesn't' cover the case where a VM gets vmotioned to a different ESX host, and for some reason that host wasn't set up to find and backup all VM's on it.
So I"ve been tackling it from the opposite direction: select filespace_name, date(backup_end) from filespaces where node_name='VEDATACENTERNODE' order by 2 The good thing about VE, is that all the filespaces are stored under the one nodename. So I figure any VM that doesn't have a backup date of yesterday had a backup failure, and those are the only ones I need to go looking for. Better yet, VE 6.4 is announced and will be available 11/16. It's supposed to have better reporting built into it, but I haven't seen it for myself yet. W -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shawn Drew Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 6:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ADSM-L] TSM for Virtual Environments - Reporting Understood. I'm looking for more of a "q event" type output. Maybe from a third party reporting system. Maybe even the IBM reporting and monitoring if anyone can suggest something. Just a one-liner, vm name, success, fail, date, etc. Regards, Shawn ________________________________________________ Shawn Drew Internet [email protected] Sent by: [email protected] 09/28/2012 05:16 PM Please respond to [email protected] To ADSM-L cc Subject Re: [ADSM-L] TSM for Virtual Environments - Reporting Shawn, Are you seeing these messages? ANE4146I Starting Full VM backup of Virtual Machine 'vmname' ANE4147I Successful Full VM backup of Virtual Machine 'vmname' ANE4148E Full VM backup of Virtual Machine 'vmname' failed with RC rc Do they have session/process numbers? There are a host of other VM related messages that should help describe the status... Richard -----Original Message----- From: ADSM: Dist Stor Manager [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shawn Drew Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 4:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ADSM-L] TSM for Virtual Environments - Reporting Quick question, may be a long answer. How is everyone reporting on success/failures for Full VM backups using TSM for VE. My reports are grabbing lines from the actlog and it is uugly. 2012-09-25 11:40:27 ANE4142I virtual machine NODE1 backed up to nodename DATAMOVER1 2012-09-25 11:40:27 ANE4142I virtual machine NODE2 backed up to nodename DATAMOVER1 2012-09-25 11:40:27 ANE4143I Total number of virtual machines failed: 0 Regards, Shawn ________________________________________________ Shawn Drew This message and any attachments (the "message") is intended solely for the addressees and is confidential. If you receive this message in error, please delete it and immediately notify the sender. Any use not in accord with its purpose, any dissemination or disclosure, either whole or partial, is prohibited except formal approval. The internet can not guarantee the integrity of this message. BNP PARIBAS (and its subsidiaries) shall (will) not therefore be liable for the message if modified. Please note that certain functions and services for BNP Paribas may be performed by BNP Paribas RCC, Inc. This message and any attachments (the "message") is intended solely for the addressees and is confidential. If you receive this message in error, please delete it and immediately notify the sender. Any use not in accord with its purpose, any dissemination or disclosure, either whole or partial, is prohibited except formal approval. The internet can not guarantee the integrity of this message. BNP PARIBAS (and its subsidiaries) shall (will) not therefore be liable for the message if modified. Please note that certain functions and services for BNP Paribas may be performed by BNP Paribas RCC, Inc.
