HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide for Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition SRM Software (July 2008)

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• Session Status — The session status: Success or Failure
• Session State — The session state: Done, Queued, or Active
• Media Used — The type of media used for the backup
• Start Time — The starting time and date of the session
• End Time — The end time and date of the session
• Size — The size of the session in kilobytes (KB)
• Files — The number of files.
NOTE: After removing Caché and installing Cim extensions, the first session monitoring collection
will collect all of the sessions for the past week. One hour after a fresh installation of Caché, these
sessions will be removed from the Running Sessions page.
NOTE: The Running Sessions page is automatically refreshed every two minutes. To manually
refresh the page, click Getting Latest Sessions.
Determining if the Last Scheduled Backup was Successful
Backup Manager provides several tools to help you determine if the last scheduled backup was
successful. The quickest way to do this is from the Summary tab in Backup Manager. See the
following topics to learn more:
• ”Viewing the Summary Backup Charts” on page 575
• ”Viewing Backup Results for a Backup Manager Host” on page 575
• ”Viewing Backup Results for a Client” on page 576
• ”Viewing Backup Information for a Client” on page 576
• ”Viewing Backup Reports” on page 577
Viewing the Summary Backup Charts
To access summary information about last night’s backup from the backup charts:
1. Access Backup Manager by clicking Tools > Storage Essentials > Backup Manager or by
clicking Tools > Storage Essentials > Home, and then clicking Backup Manager in the left pane.
2. Click the Summary tab on the right side of the window.
By default, the Backup SLA Performance chart is displayed in the upper-left pane on the
Summary page. This chart includes the overall results of the backups made in the last 14 days. It
tells you if the overall backup was successful, partially successful, or failed. See ”About the
Summary Backup Charts” on page 587 and ”Modifying Summary Backup Charts” on
page 592 for more information about this chart and about modifying it.
Viewing Backup Results for a Backup Manager Host
To quickly view the results of the backup sessions that a backup application has performed: