Let me begin by saying that this rant is in no way meant to be directed to Mark Stapleton, his advice has helped me many times and he is a great asset to the group, he never hesitates to help.
Be aware, q event ONLY reports on the success or failure of the backup script being ran, NOT the actual job. Example: Last week the below method was used as it is everyday to check the status of scheduled jobs and it reported the following. 04/05/2002 01:30:00 04/05/2002 02:01:54 130AM_EXCHANGE03_DB- EXCHANGE03_DB Completed But.... when you actually look into the job you still see it running as a session. Sess Comm. Sess Wait Bytes Bytes Sess Platform Client Name Number Method State Time Sent Recvd Type ------ ------ ------ ------ ------- ------- ----- -------- -------------------- 3,102 Tcp/Ip RecvW 0 S 8.0 K 11.6 G Node TDP EXCHANGE03_DB MSExc- hgV2 NT And the activity log only shows that the Directory completed, the Information Store is still being backed up. I spoke to level 2 support and I understand that q event only reports on the script, he suggested that I need to put some kind of wait statement in the script to not let it complete until the job actually completes. I am not very happy with his suggestion, I am querying the event, I am not running a q script!!! I don't want a Band-Aid, I just want a q event that works!!! Is there another solution within Tivoli to query the actual events? BTW, we are running TSM 4.1.3 on W2K server and the example is for Exchange TDP 2.2 on Exchange 5.5. Thanks all, Mark B. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Stapleton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 07, 2002 10:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: reporting on backup successes/failures On Tue, 5 Mar 2002 10:26:18 -0600, "Glass, Peter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >What would be the best way to produce a report that shows the number of >client backup successes vs. failures, for a given day? This is not as hard as some folks seem to want to make it: q event * * begind=<start_date> endd=<end_date> If you want it in script form: def script backup_check 'q event * * $1 $2 > /tmp/backup_check' You run it by inputting run backup_check 04/01/2002 04/03/2002 -- Mark Stapleton ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
