How do I view active jobs?

[mpoertner]

I scheduled a backup job to run overnight.  As far as I can tell it completed successfully but the task of duplicating the job to tape did not.  So I submitted another request to duplicate to tape.

The icon at the bottom of the screen that says, "Number of active jobs" says 1.  However, I can not find any way to view that active job anywhere in the management console.  I would like to view the status of the job.  Is this not possible in this new version.  I had no problem doing this in BE 2010.

[VJware]

Double-click on the server name from the Backup * Restore tab...and "Jobs" tab should be highlighted on the left side

[mpoertner]

Thanks for your response.

What if you don't know which server has the active job?  I looked through all the servers but did not find any. Is there any way to view ANY active jobs?

[VJware]

Since BE 2012 is based on a server-centric model, you would be able to view only at the server level...

[mpoertner]

How do I find out which server has the active job? If I have 20 servers, do I have to drill down the menu of each one to figure out which server is running the active job? 

[pkh]

One quick way is to use BEMCLI.  Start BEMCLI (Start > All Programs > Symantec Backup Exec > Backup Exec Management Command Line Interface.), then issue this command

Get-BEJob -Status Active

[Altimate1]

Hi, This is probably the best solution (at least for me)... what a pity we can't filter by substatus (may be in the future?) :

http://www.symantec.com/connect/forums/be2012-bemcli

Regards

[BE_KirkFreiheit]

With PowerShell, developers can provide a default 'view' for the format-list and format-table cmdlets.  BEMCLI does this a lot -- only the most important/common properties of BEMCLI objects are shown automatically.

BEMCLI> get-bejob


Name                  : KIRKF-OFFICE.hro.rnd.veritas.com Backup 00010-Full
JobType               : Backup
TaskType              : Full
TaskName              : Full
IsActive              : False
Status                : Scheduled
SubStatus             : Ok
SelectionSummary      : Fully selected
Storage               : Any disk storage
Schedule              : Friday every 1 week(s) at 11:00 PM effective on 6/18/2012.
IsBackupDefinitionJob : True

Name                  : KIRKF-OFFICE.hro.rnd.veritas.com Backup 00010-Incremental
JobType               : Backup
TaskType              : Incremental
TaskName              : Incremental
IsActive              : False
Status                : Scheduled
SubStatus             : Ok
SelectionSummary      : Fully selected
Storage               : Any disk storage
Schedule              : Every 1 day(s) at 11:00 PM effective on 6/18/2012.
IsBackupDefinitionJob : True

To see the rest of the properties, you can use the Format-List * syntax:

BEMCLI> get-bejob | format-list *


Name                  : KIRKF-OFFICE.hro.rnd.veritas.com Backup 00010-Full
Id                    : 9a7f78fa-e622-47bf-a867-afc37ab9619a
TaskName              : Full
IsActive              : False
Status                : Scheduled
SubStatus             : Ok
JobType               : Backup
TaskType              : Full
Schedule              : Friday every 1 week(s) at 11:00 PM effective on 6/18/2012.
SelectionSummary      : Fully selected
NextStartDate         : 6/22/2012 11:00:00 PM
Priority              : Normal
Storage               : Any disk storage
StorageId             : 00000006-0001-0000-0000-000000000000
KeepDiskDataFor       : 14.00:00:00
MediaSet              :
MediaSetId            : 00000009-03eb-0000-0000-000000000000
MediaVault            :
MediaVaultId          : 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
IsBackupDefinitionJob : True
BackupDefinition      : KIRKF-OFFICE.hro.rnd.veritas.com Backup 00010
BackupDefinitionId    : fb199c4a-70e1-4ca1-b613-7b6cd6d4240d
AgentServer           : KIRKF-OFFICE.hro.rnd.veritas.com
AgentServerId         : 3423e496-04de-4e69-996c-23735b3a1364
BackupExecServer      :
BackupExecServerId    : 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
SupersedingJob        :
SupersedingJobId      : 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

Name                  : KIRKF-OFFICE.hro.rnd.veritas.com Backup 00010-Incremental
Id                    : 757b69af-82fd-4468-bf21-4d9087de20bf
TaskName              : Incremental
IsActive              : False
Status                : Scheduled
SubStatus             : Ok
JobType               : Backup
TaskType              : Incremental
Schedule              : Every 1 day(s) at 11:00 PM effective on 6/18/2012.
SelectionSummary      : Fully selected
NextStartDate         : 6/22/2012 11:00:00 PM
Priority              : Normal
Storage               : Any disk storage
StorageId             : 00000006-0001-0000-0000-000000000000
KeepDiskDataFor       : 7.00:00:00
MediaSet              :
MediaSetId            : 00000009-03eb-0000-0000-000000000000
MediaVault            :
MediaVaultId          : 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
IsBackupDefinitionJob : True
BackupDefinition      : KIRKF-OFFICE.hro.rnd.veritas.com Backup 00010
BackupDefinitionId    : fb199c4a-70e1-4ca1-b613-7b6cd6d4240d
AgentServer           : KIRKF-OFFICE.hro.rnd.veritas.com
AgentServerId         : 3423e496-04de-4e69-996c-23735b3a1364
BackupExecServer      :
BackupExecServerId    : 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
SupersedingJob        :
SupersedingJobId      : 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000

You can see the "SubStatus" field.  Let's probe that a bit:

BEMCLI> get-bejob | Get-Member SubStatus


   TypeName: BackupExec.Management.CLI.BEJob

Name      MemberType Definition
----      ---------- ----------
SubStatus Property   BackupExec.Management.CLI.BEJobSubStatus SubStatus {get;}

You can see here that the SubStatus is of type "BackupExec.Management.CLI.BEJobSubStatus".  That's an enumeration value; where possible, BEMCLI uses enumerations ("enums") so you can discover the complete set of possible values.  You use the "[enum]::GetValues()" function to do that:

BEMCLI> [enum]::GetValues("BackupExec.Management.CLI.BEJobSubStatus")
Unknown
Ok
InternalError
InvalidInput
InvalidStorageDevice
InvalidJob
DestinationCannotBeABackupExecServer
StorageCannotBeStorageDevicePool
NoBackupExecServersAvailable
NotReadyDiscoveringStorageDevices
IncompatibleResumes
ServerLicenseNotAvailable
MultiServerLicenseNotAvailable
AdvancedOpenFileOptionLicenseNotAvailable
SqlAgentLicenseNotAvailable
ExchangeAgentLicenseNotAvailable
Windows2000LicenseNotAvailable
NetwareLicenseNotAvailable
NoWindowsNT4Server
NoWindows2000Server
NoNetwareServer
LocalBackupExecServerRequired
LotusNotesLicenseNotAvailable
OracleAgentLicenseNotAvailable
LotusDominoAgentLicenseNotAvailable
SharepointAgentLicenseNotAvailable
NoServersInBackupExecServerPool
LocalServerNotBackupExecServer
DestinationServerNotInBackupExecServerPool
StorageDeviceNotOnLocalBackupExecServer
StorageNotConfiguredForBackupExecServer
UnixAgentLicenseNotAvailable
MacintoshAgentLicenseNotAvailable
NoIdleDevicesAvailable
CascadedPoolNotAllowed
CascadedPoolIsEmpty
StorageDevicePoolIsEmpty
NoDevicesInCascadedPoolAreAvailable
NoEligibleDevicesAvailableInStorageDevicePool
WillRunAfterBlockingJobCompletes
JobQueueOnHold
BackupExecServerNotAvailable
OracleOnLinuxAgentLicenseNotAvailable
BlockedByActiveLinkedJob
DB2AgentLicenseNotAvailable
MicrosoftVirtualServerAgentLicenseNotAvailable
VMwareAgentLicenseNotAvailable
NoBackupExecServersWithDeduplicationOptionLicenseAvailable
No64BitBackupExecServersAvailableForExchangeResources
BackupExecArchivingOptionLicenseNotAvailable
EnterpriseVaultLicenseNotAvailable
StorageCannotBeVault
StorageCannotBeStorageArray
InvalidManagedBackupExecServer
NoIdleDevicesOnTargetBackupExecServerAvailable
NoIdleDeviceInStoragePoolAvailable
NoCompatibleBackupExecServersAvailable
StorageRequiresRestrictedSelection
PreferredBackupExecCatalogServerNotAvailable

PowerShell can help work around filtering limitations of cmdlets by using the "Where-Object" and filtering the complete list of objects the "Get-" cmdlet outputs.

Here's a demo of filtering jobs by substatus -- first the jobs whose substatus is NOT "Ok", then those with an "Ok" substatus:

BEMCLI> Get-BEJob | Where-Object { $_.SubStatus -ne "Ok" }
BEMCLI> Get-BEJob | Where-Object { $_.SubStatus -eq "Ok" }


Name                  : KIRKF-OFFICE.hro.rnd.veritas.com Backup 00010-Full
JobType               : Backup
TaskType              : Full
TaskName              : Full
IsActive              : False
Status                : Scheduled
SubStatus             : Ok
SelectionSummary      : Fully selected
Storage               : Any disk storage
Schedule              : Friday every 1 week(s) at 11:00 PM effective on 6/18/2012.
IsBackupDefinitionJob : True

Name                  : KIRKF-OFFICE.hro.rnd.veritas.com Backup 00010-Incremental
JobType               : Backup
TaskType              : Incremental
TaskName              : Incremental
IsActive              : False
Status                : Scheduled
SubStatus             : Ok
SelectionSummary      : Fully selected
Storage               : Any disk storage
Schedule              : Every 1 day(s) at 11:00 PM effective on 6/18/2012.
IsBackupDefinitionJob : True

All two of my jobs are "Ok" so far -- the first pipeline correctly returned zero jobs, the second returned both.

-Kirk out.

[bhaugurav]

You can refer :

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/blogs/announcing-backup-exec-2012-sp1-available-now

[Altimate1]

Great explanation. Thanks.
Regards

[cgriffin]

Use the 'List' view instead of the 'Tree' view.  You can even sort by Job Status to move active jobs to the top.

[Robert_Blanchet]

Go to the Storage tab. Double click on your storage device. Click on Jobs on the left hand side. It brings up a job monitor very similar to the old one.