Customizing Jobs › Tasks You Can Perform Using the Job Status Manager › View Job Details Using the Activity Log › Set Activity Log Queries

Set Activity Log Queries

Arcserve Backup provides you with the capability to customize the type of information and how the information displays in the Activity Log.

The default activity log query values are as follows:

• View: Group by Week and Group by Job
• Job Status: All Message
• Type: All
• Date: All Time
• Job ID: blank
• Session: blank
• Keywords: Message

Note: To return to the default setting at any time click Reset.

To set Activity Log Queries

1. Open the Job Status Manager and select the Activity Log tab.
2. Expand the Log Query Bar. By default the Log Query Bar is collapsed.

   The Log Query Bar opens.

3. Specify the desired options.
   • View--Specify how you want to group the activity log messages. You can group by week, type and job.
     • The Group by Week lets you group the activity log messages by the week (default).
     • The Group by Jobs option, lets you group the Activity Log with the parent job together with all of its child jobs. For each parent job and its corresponding child jobs, the Activity Log presents you with a description for the job (default).
     • The Group by Type option lets you group error messages, warning messages, and information messages.
   • Job status--Specify the types of jobs that you want to view in the Activity Log. You can view All, Finished, All unsuccessful, Canceled, Failed, Incomplete, Crashed and Unknown.
   • Message type--Specify the types of messages that you want to view in the Activity Log.

     You can view All, Error, Warnings, Errors and Warnings, Informations, Errors and Informations, and Warnings and Informations.

   • Date--Specify a date or range of dates of messages that you want to view in the Activity Log.

     You can show all messages, filter messages such that only messages before or after a specified date display, or display a specific range of dates.

   • Job ID--Specify a know job ID.
   • Session--Specify a know session.
   • Keywords--Sort the activity log by keywords. You can specify Job Name or Message.
4. Click Update.

   The Activity Log displays the results according to the specified query.

   Note: To get the latest jobs, with the existing filters, click Refresh on the toolbar or F5.