Tivoli Storage Manager FastBack for Workstations, Version 6.1.2

Viewing the activity log of a client

View the log of activity for a single client. The activity log provides information for one client. In the client GUI, this same log is called the activity report.

Before you begin

This task assumes that the central administration console discovered some clients.

About this task

An activity log records events for a single client. If you are interested in the events of the central administration server, view the audit log.

Procedure

  1. Open the Clients panel. The Clients panel displays the following tabs: Health, Storage, and Deployment.
  2. Click the Health tab.
  3. Select the client whose log you want to see.
  4. Click the Actions menu.
  5. Click View Activity Log. The log entries are displayed.
  6. Optional: Filter the log entries that are displayed.
    1. In the filter text field, type a text string.
    2. Click the arrow to the left of the filter text field.
    3. From the list of names in the Filter On box, select one or more column names.
    4. Click OK. The log entries are filtered according to your filter criteria.

      For example, if you typed *fail and selected the Message Text column name, all entries with fail in the message text are displayed.

      More strings are matched when you use wildcards in the filter text. An asterisk replaces several characters. A question mark replaces one character. If you use an asterisk or wildcard in the filter text, the blank space beyond the end of your filter text matches any text.

      Table 1. Filter strings and matching text
      Filter text string Matching text
      Jupiter Jupiter
      Jupiter?

      Jupiter
      Jupiter_bright_moon_light
      Jupiter_moon

      Jupiter?moon

      Jupiter_moon

      *moon

      Jupiter_bright_moon_light
      Jupiter_moon
      moon
      Saturn_moon
      Saturn_moon_light

  7. Optional: Order the entries by sorting on the values in any column.
    1. Click a column heading. The entries are ordered in ascending sequence according to the text in the cells of that column.
    2. Click the same column heading again. The entries are ordered in descending sequence according to the text in the cells of that column.
    3. Click another column heading. The entries are ordered in ascending sequence according to the text in the cells of that column.

What to do next

After viewing the activity log, you can gather more information or take action.

For example, assume that you investigate the activity log of client23 because this client is near the maximum capacity for remote storage. The activity log for client23 indicates that client23 has backed up many audio and movie files. You know that client23 belongs to a group that excludes audio and movie files from backups.

You view the current configuration file for client23, and you notice that it does not contain the same settings as the group.

You contact the end user, and determine that the audio and movie files should not be backed up. You can resend the group configuration to client23 by assigning client23 to the group again.