CPS Jobs topic boxes

Every CPS job that is specified on the SmartLink command line has a topic box that is displayed in the job logs. This topic box contains all the information that is related to that job. The title of the box is the name of the CPS job. This box always contains a header and a details box. If the job has exceptions, then the box is orange (warning color). Subordinate topic boxes to the CPS jobs topic box are as follows.

Jobs that have exceptions are listed before any successful jobs.

Table: Subordinate jobs topic boxes describes subordinate job topic boxes.

Table: Subordinate jobs topic boxes

Topic box

Description

Job Header

Contains a summary of the job at the time SmartLink ran. It shows the job name, description, type, state, last started time, and last stopped time.

Job Details

Contains job properties that define how the job was configured when the SmartLink command line was started. The Job Details boxes contain most of the job properties that are found on the CPS Job Properties page.

Job Log

Contains CPS job log entries for the period starting when the Backup Exec job last ran, and ending with the current run.

Log entries are presented based on the following:

  • The log entries are sorted in the same order as the Backup Exec log entries. They are sorted in descending order with the latest entries at the bottom of the log.

  • The date/time portions of CPS log entries are presented in the same format as the date/time fields in the rest of the Backup Exec log (12 versus 24-hour clock, UTC versus local time, international time format, and so forth.)

The number of entries is optionally configured with the -logLimit command line parameter.

Backup Pair

One Backup Pair box exists for each pair of the associated CPS job. The title of the box is the name of the actual CPS pair. If there is an exception associated with the pair, the box title contains the state of the pair along with a description of the exception condition.

Pair Header

Contains a summary of the pair at the time SmartLink ran. It shows the source and destination server names, pair state, last started time, last stopped time, destination consistency, and destination latency.

Destination latency can only be calculated when both servers in a pair are running Continuous Protection Server version 10 or later.

Pair Log

Contains CPS pair log entries for the time period starting from when the owning Backup Exec job ran, and ending with the current run.

Log entries are presented based on the following:

  • The log entries are sorted in the same order as the Backup Exec log entries. They are sorted in descending order with the latest entries at the bottom of the log.

  • The date/time portions of our log entries is presented in the same format as the date/time fields in the rest of the Backup Exec log (12 versus 24 hour clock, UTC versus local time, international time format, and so forth.)

The number of entries is optionally configured with the -logLimit command line parameter.

CPS Jobs topic boxes