Event Notification

Backup reports activity and status to the system administrator through several different programs and interfaces. Backup uses notifications to determine which events to report and how to report on those events.

Preconfigured Notifications

Backup includes many preconfigured notifications, which define the response of Backup to specific Backup events. The preconfigured notifications are described in "Notifications Resource ". You can edit the preconfigured notifications and create your own custom notifications. By selecting Details from the View menu in the nwadmin GUI, or Display Options from the Options menu, then Hidden, in the nsradmin interface.

Routine Data Movement Operations Reports

The degree of success in the completion of scheduled group backups, group cloning, and archive operations is reported to you by the savegrp program through a savegroup completion report. (This report is the action invoked by the preconfigured notification called Savegroup Completion.) The report is emailed to root and sent to the log file in /nsr/logs/messages. The report consolidates the following information:

• The success or failure of each save set participating in the operation

• The operation's save date and time

• The bootstrap ssid

• The bootstrap volume location (volume name, starting record number, and ending record number)

A second report, sent to the Backup server's designated default printer, repeats the bootstrap information as hard copy, which you should keep on-hand in a secure location. (This printed report is the action invoked by the preconfigured notification called Bootstrap.) Disaster recovery is much easier to perform if you have access to the bootstrap information in the most recent printed report.

Backup provides the nsrinfo program, which enables you to query the contents of the Backup client file index. (Appendix B, Command Line Reference Utilities describes the most commonly used nsrinfo commands and options.)

Backup also provides the nsrwatch program, which enables you to use a character-based interface to monitor Backup activity as it occurs.

Storage Management Application Reports

Table 3-1 lists the programs that Backup provides to query the contents of the storage management system. (Appendix B, Command Line Reference Utilities describes the most commonly used commands and options in more detail.)

Table 3-1 Storage Management report Programs

Program Name	Function
mminfo	Generates a report that provides the contents and mode of the storage volumes and/or the identification numbers and status of the stored save sets
mmlocate	Generates a report that provides the user-defined location of storage volumes
nsrinfo	Generates a report that provides the contents of the client file index
nsrmm	Generates a report that provides the status of the storage devices known to Backup

Backup Server Statistics and Diagnostic Reports

Messages that report on Backup diagnostics are displayed in the Backup administrator interface and are also contained in the /nsr/logs/messages Backup messages file. These messages include warning and error conditions and notice of lost connections.

Message Log Files

The messages generated by the Backup server daemons (nsrd, nsrindexd, nsrmmdbd, and nsrmmd) are contained in the Backup messages log and the daemon.log file, typically found in the /nsr/logs directory.