eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by BackupJobsTest

The BackupJobsTest returns statistics relating to the backup jobs in the Veritas Backup Exec server. The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Backup_job_count The number of backup jobs Number A very high value indicates heavy load on the backup server.
Backup_job_run_time The time taken by all backup jobs Mins  
Backup_device_wait_time The total time backup jobs have spent waiting for a storage device Mins  
Backup_mount_time The total time all backup jobs have spent waiting for media to be mounted in a storage device Mins  
Total_bytes The total number of Megabytes that have been backed up MB This measure also indicates how active the backup server is, currently. A sudden low trend indicates that there could be an error in reading the data from the media.