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Description

Backup Exec Admin

Sub-menu for administrative functions for the Backup Exec server.

Start/Stop Server

Allows the user to start or stop the Backup Exec server.

Reset Job Status

Displays a list of jobs in a failed or aborted state. The status of selected jobs can be manually set to an OK state.

KM Configure

Sub-menu for KM configuration functions.

Interfaces

Allows Backup Exec interfaces use by the KM to be verified and configured (if necessary).

Service Monitoring

Allows monitoring of Backup Exec services to be configured - alerts for selected services that are not running can be disabled.

Job Instance Cleanup

Allows the method and time period used to automatically remove completed job instances.

Configure Job Log Lines

Allows to change the number of log lines to display from job log file in parameter BEXJobInfo. By default this is set to 23 lines.

Alert Monitoring Period

Allows the monitoring period to be configured for each of the four types of alerts. The configured period is how long the Alert will be displayed on the Console, starting from the time the Alert was originally generated in Backup Exec. The default values are: Information 3 days; Warning 5 days; Error 7 days; Critical 7 days.

Instance Limits

This allows limits to be set for the number of Alert, Drive, Job and Media Set instances that can be created.

Debug

This option turns on debugging information for several areas of reporting. It is intended to provide limited additional information output onto the system console window.

Make KM Preloaded

This option adds the Backup Exec KM to the Preloaded KMs list on the Agent. This will mean that the Backup Exec KM will still be running even if there are no Consoles attached to the Agent.

Refresh Parameters

Re-runs the standard & collector parameters for BEX_SERVER.

About

This option gives details about Sentry Software and the KM version.