BE 2012 Inventory job does not have option to include job log anymore
Hi there,
We have 15 Backup Exec servers at remote sites. No IT staff on remote sites and we are depended on production staff to swap backup tapes. Sometimes they forget to insert the backup tape. As a solution, we have implemented the inventory job which runs in the middle of the day to check if there is tape in the drive or not and sends us the job log. We check those emails and calls staff if required to inser the backup tape. This way we keep our backups healthy and prevent them to fail.
I have upgraded BE 2012 on one of the server and found there is no option to include job log with inventory. It can only send email to notify that inventory has finished. That means more work for our IT support staff. We need to login to 15 different servers and find out whether backup tape has been inserted or not which is not feasible everyday. I am going to stop upgrades until Symantec fix this issue.
Anyone else having same issue or does anyone know the solution?
Thanks
I have already created powershell script which sends an email with the tape label. As I said before I don't see it as solution but it is work around. I don't see why Symantec needs to remove that functionality. Even we can get backups running with scripts so what is the need of Symantec backup exec. The idea is to buy third party software is to make admin's life easy by having extra options, easy to run and understand and stability.
I hope you understand my view.
Thanks