The following advanced parameters apply to Backup Manager data collection and can be added using:

Admin > Advanced > Parameters, described in Adding an Advanced Parameter.

Valid Values: 0 or higher (Default = 0 to force collection of all jobs)

Scope: This parameter can be set at the Data Collector level.

This advanced parameter applies to CommVault Simpana data collection. Specifies how many hours to retrieve historical jobs on the first collection only. If you only want to collect jobs from the last week, you don't need this advanced parameter. You can also specify positive values for this number of hours; for example, 168 = 1 week.

Valid Values: 0 or higher (Default = 30)

Scope: This parameter can be set at the Data Collector level.

This advanced parameter applies to NetWorker data collection. The data collection event thread runs every 10 minutes to get all the finished jobs that have been created after the last jobs that were captured during the last collection cycle, plus 30 minutes of additional time to account for long-running jobs.

For long-running backups, it may be necessary to configure the MMINFO_MOVE_BACKWARD_MIN Advanced Parameter to ensure that all NetWorker savesets are collected successfully. The default value is 30 minutes, but for long-running backups, that time may need to be adjusted because 30 minutes may not be long enough to capture all the jobs. For example, some jobs can last several hours.

Note that if a value of less than 30 minutes is configured, the Data Collector uses the default 30 minutes.

Valid Values: Y or N (Default = N)

Scope: This parameter can be set at the Data Collector level.

This advanced parameter applies to NetBackup data collection. Set this parameter to Y to set NetBackup backup job statuses to the associated duplication job status. Note that this can cause issues when the Duplication job is duplicating multiple backup jobs and some of these jobs fail (causing all backup job statuses to be set to 1 - Partial success).

Valid Values: Y or N (Default = N)

Scope: This parameter can be set at the Data Collector level.

This advanced parameter applies to Avamar data collection. Due to security restrictions, some customers do not want to run command-line interface (CLI) commands on their Avamar servers. To turn off CLI commands, set this parameter to Y. This should be set on a per-collector basis.

Valid Values: A positive integer. (Default = 1)

Scope: During the first collection, the RMAN collector will collect session and backup details for the number of days as set by this parameter. If this parameter is not set, the default value is 1 day.

The RMAN collector chooses the start time as the last "session time" collected for. However, if this start time is more than the number of days (as set by this parameter), RMAN_BACKUP_LOOKBACK_DAYS takes the precedence.

Example:

The last "session time" collected for RMAN is Feb 5, 2018 and the current date is Mar 12, 2018.

If this parameter is set as 5 days, then the RMAN collector will collect the session and backup information only for the past 5 days.

If this parameter is set as 50 days, then RMAN collector will collect the session and backup information from Feb 5, 2018 until Mar 12, 2018.

Valid Values: Y or N (Default = N)

Scope: This parameter can be set at the Data Collector level.

When this advanced parameter is set to "Y" the value set for RMAN_BACKUP_LOOKBACK_DAYS is used ignoring any previous collection date. This can be used to collect historical data.

After running a collection with this advanced parameter set to "Y" ensure that it is reset back to "N" to avoid excessively-long collection cycles.

Valid Values: Y or N (Default = N)

Scope: This parameter can be set at the Data Collector level.

Data collection may trigger a Kerberos authentication prompt that can cause the collector to hang until the authentication passes.

Valid Values: Y or N (Default = N)

Scope: This parameter can be set at the Data Collector level.

This advanced parameter can be configured for collection of NetBackup include/exclude lists from Unix clients. By default, the collector uses the NetBackup-recommended command syntax to retrieve the lists. If the lists are not collected successfully, set this advanced parameter to Y, which instructs the collector to use an alternative command syntax for list data retrieval from Unix clients.

Valid Values: Y or N (Default = N)

Scope: This parameter can be set at the Data Collector level.

This advanced parameter applies to Backup Exec data collection. When set to Y, the Backup Exec Data Collector uses NTMLv2 authentication.

Valid Values: A positive integer. (Default = 1)

Scope: During the first collection, the Veeam collector will collect session and backup details for the number of days as set by this parameter. If this parameter is not set, the default value is 1 day.

The Veeam collector chooses the start time as the last "session time" collected for. However, if this start time is more than the number of days (as set by this parameter), VEEAM_BACKUP_LOOKBACK_DAYS takes the precedence.

Example:

The last "session time" collected for Veeam is Feb 5, 2018 and the current date is Mar 12, 2018.

If this parameter is set as 5 days, then the Veeam collector will collect the session and backup information only for the past 5 days.

If this parameter is set as 50 days, then Veeam collector will collect the session and backup information from Feb 5, 2018 until Mar 12, 2018.

Valid Values: Y or N (Default = N)

Scope: This parameter can be set at the Data Collector level.

When this advanced parameter is set to "Y" the value set for VEEAM_BACKUP_LOOKBACK_DAYS is used ignoring any previous collection date. This can be used to collect historical data.

After running a collection with this advanced parameter set to "Y" ensure that it is reset back to "N" to avoid historic data collection on future scheduled or On Demand runs.