Reporting and Logging

Introduction

Tranzman provides an extensive logging and reporting on the configs involved in migration.
It helps to understand the status of the migrated components and useful for troubleshooting issues related to migration.

Reports

Reports provides statistical reporting on image catalog and its associated information. The report is available for individual environments and/or as collective.
Click on Views->Reports to access those charts. A selections button on the top right corner is used as a filter for the charts.

will display the charts against data selected for migration.

will display the charts against non selected data.

will display the charts against both selected and non selected data.

Below picture shows the charts against the selected data.

Reports also provides two main additional reporting- Summary and Environment History

Summary

To view the Summary report, navigate to Views->Reports and click on the icon.
Summary report provides an overall insight of the image Transition status, such as exported, manipulated, imported etc.,
It also gives all the added Agent status information.
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Environment History

To view the Environment History, Navigate to Views -> Reports and click on the Environment History icon. A pop-up window showing the history report of environment, the state and the reason for the change in state

Activities

Activities shows all the jobs information Clicking on the job, provides detailed information about the task. The logs can also be downloaded.

Images

Provides the complete list of discovered images of all the backup domain Options to manipulate the data migration (ignore images, Reset an image, Force an image as imported etc.,) Click on an image to view the image information and the different manipulation stages

Tranzman provides different options as below to manipulate the images.

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Following filters can be applied on images list:

• Origin, Destination and Policy Type drop down provides filtering based on configuration data.
• State and Category filters based on the manipulation status of image .
• Valid data can be entered on other text fields as a custom filtering.
• All dropdown list supports multi-selection filtering and the default is with no filter.

Media

The media related information is available under Views->Media It provides information about the backup medias for selected backup domain. Filters are available to shortlist the media as required <img>

Config Objects

Config Objects, lists the information on all the available configurations that can be migrated Shows the status of each object such as, selected, deselected, imported, not selected Like other menus, Config objects supports filter as well. It is available under Views->Config Objects

The different State are: deselected: The configuration item is excluded by rules in Selections. exported: List the configurations available on origin imported: list the configurations migrated to Destination not selected: Configurations that cannot be selected or added in rules but are auto selected selected: Selected as part of selections or through Rules.

Summary

To view the Summary report, Navigate to Views -> Reports and click on the Summary icon. Summary report provides an overall insight of the image Transition status, such as exported, manipulated, imported etc., It also gives all the added Agent status information.

Restore Usage

Restore specific logs are shown here. Image - ImageId used for restore Path - Source data path Device - NFS/CIFS mounted on Appliance for restore New path - Destination path for restore State - State of restore like new,completed,error etc.

Note: Restore Logs are shown only when Tranzman is used to restore the data as files i.e. when migration type is "Recovery to Files"

Environment History

Environment History logs the Agent state changes such as agent paused and agent resumed against the environment.

Alerts

Alerts provides detailed info on all the warnings, errors created during the migration. To view the Alerts, Navigating to Views->Alerts in Tranzman UI. Alerts are categorized to SYSTEM, SYSOPS,MEDIA,AGENT and CONFIG Alerts also helps to view and troubleshoot failed Jobs that run on agents. Clicking on Task number of an Alert, opens detailed logging. Warning messages are highlighted in Amber and Fatal/error messages are highlighted in Red Clicking on download icon (top left), downloads full log and associated files for troubleshooting

Activities

Activities section provides information of all the jobs that has run or are running on the Tranzman appliance. Jobs can be filtered by Environment,Action,State,Job Number. The logs can also be downloaded.