Have you tried the configuration tasks widget in BE 15 FP3?
When outstanding critical tasks are detected, the home page icon image is changed as shown below. This will indicate to the administrator to switch to the home tab.
Apart from various configuration tasks the widget also alerts for Storage configuration. Following are the checks done and alerted for storage configuration deviations,
Storage Space
- Following tasks are generated when space thresholds are crossed
- Critical severity task when a device reaches its critical threshold.
- Warning severity task when a device reaches its warning threshold.
- Informational severity when a device reaches its low space threshold.
- Action link opens the storage view. Here customers can review the storage consumed by the device and take necessary steps.
- The task is removed after the available space is sufficient.
- Storage space is not checked for cloud storage and virtual disk storage devices.
Media Availability
- Warning task generated when
- No media present on all of the drive(s) of the device.
- Inventory not done.
- This check is done only on standalone tape drives, Robotic libraries, Autoloaders, Disk cartridge devices.
- Action link opens the storage view.
- To remove the task
- If media is not present – A media should be inserted and inventory needs to run.
- If media is present – Inventory is run manually, or if inventory is automatically run as part of a backup job.
Storage Enabled\Disabled
- Task generated when a storage device\drive is disabled
- Critical task when there are scheduled jobs which are not on hold and are targeted to the device\drive
- Tasks have different descriptions depending upon scenarios
- When some drives of a Robotic library are disabled
- When all drives of a Robotic library are disabled
- When the device itself is disabled.
- This check is done on all devices
- Action link opens the storage view.
- The task is removed when the device\drive is enabled.
Dedup services check
- Warning task generated when
- there is a pending restart of Backup Exec Services as a result of client or server side Dedupe configuration
- Storage space threshold related tasks for Dedupe storage are generated similar to that for Disk storage
Widget Status on the home page can be any of the following,
Configuration Tasks Dialog elements-