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  3. Section V. Report Reference
  4. Backup Manager Management Reports
  5. Anomalies Summary

Anomalies Summary

This report displays a summary anomalies detected for various clients during backup. It appears as a drill down report of the Anomaly Count chart that is displayed on the Backup Primary Server Overview and Ransomware Risk Assessment dashboards. Anomalies are reported provided anomaly detection is configure in NetBackup Web UI (see Configure anomaly detection settings section of the NetBackup Security and Encryption Guide) and Security Details probe is enabled in the NetBackup Policy for the primary server

See Anomaly detection.

This report is located here:

Backup Manager > Management Reports > Anomalies Summary

Table: Anomalies Summary

Column name

Description

Client

Name of the backup up host. The link drills down to Host Details report.

See Host Details .

Server

Name of the Server for the backup job. The link drills down to Host Details report.

See Host Details .

Job Id

ID of the backup job. The link drills down to the Job Details report.

See Job Details Report .

Anomaly Score

Severity of the anomaly. The score is higher if the severity of the anomaly is more. The link drills down to the Anomaly Details report.

Anomaly Severity

Indicates anomaly severity as High, Medium, or Low, based on the Anomaly Score.

Anomaly Type

Summary of anomalies that are notified for this job.

Anomaly Detection Time

Date and time when the anomaly was first detected.

Job Type

Code assigned to the backup job type.

Policy

Name of the backup policy. Click the link to drill down to Backup Policy Details report.

See Backup Policy Details .

Schedule

Schedule name configured for this job. The schedule name uniquely identifies the schedules available in the subsystem.

Job Start Time

Start time of the backup job.

Job Finish Time

End time of the backup job.

False Positive

Indicates whether the false positive is reported for this anomaly or not (Yes/No).

Anomaly Details

This report appears as a drill down report of the Anomalies Summary report. The report displays various details specific to the selected anomaly.

Table: Anomaly Details

Column name

Description

Client

Name of the backup up host. The link drills down to Host Details report.

See Host Details .

Vendor Product

The name of the backup product for which anomaly detection is performed.

Job Id

ID of the backup job.

Server

Name of the Primary Server for the backup job. The link drills down to Host Details report.

See Host Details .

Policy

Name of the backup policy. Click the link to drill down to Backup Policy Details report.

See Backup Policy Details .

Create Date

Anomaly detection date.

Last Updated

Date and time when the anomaly record was last updated.

Anomaly Summary

Score

Severity of the anomaly. The score is higher if the severity of the anomaly is more.

Severity

Indicates anomaly severity as High, Medium, or Low, based on the Anomaly Score.

Count

The number of anomalies detected for the job.

False Positive

Indicates whether the false positive is reported for this anomaly or not (Yes/No).

Anomaly Parameters

File Count

If this field value is available, then there is anomaly detected on backup taken on number of files.

Image Size

If this field value available, then there is anomaly detected on Image Size.

Data Transferred

If this field value available, then there is anomaly detected on Data Transferred.

Duplication Ratio

If this field value available, then there is anomaly detected on Deduplication Ratio.

Total Time

If this field value available, then there is anomaly detected on Time Taken by Backup Job.

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