View actions in ADBM

Daria Barysheva

Contents

List of actions
Search actions
Action details

In ADBM, an action means any API call, SQL request, or internal procedure that starts when backup configurations or operations related to backups are being applied.

Each action can trigger several other related actions. In this case, a top-level action is called parent, while others are called children or child actions.

List of actions

To view a list of actions, follow the steps:

Open the Backup Manager page via the ADB Control web interface. The Actions section of the next page contains a table with general information on actions for all available ADB clusters.

The Actions section
If you want to display actions for a specified cluster, click the cluster name in the table that is located in the Clusters section of the opened page.

Select the ADB cluster

The Actions tab of the opened page contains a table with general information on actions for the selected cluster.

The Actions tab

Both tables mentioned above contain the following information on actions.

Action list fields
Field	Description
Action Id	An action unique identifier
Cluster	A name of the cluster on which the selected action was executed. Displayed only if no specific cluster is selected
Type	An action type. Possible values: `sql` — SQL request; `api` — API call; `cmd` — shell command; `internal` — internal ADBM action.
Action	An action full name
Start time	An action start timestamp in the `DD/MM/YYYY HH:mm:ss` format
Username	The user who performed the selected action
Status	An action status. Possible values: `started` `stopped` `done` `failed` `terminating` `awaiting` `unknown`

Search actions

Both the Actions section and the Actions tab contain filters that you can use to select actions with specific data. The default filters are listed below:

Search action ID… — filter by the action identifier (see Action Id above). Enter a full value.
Search user… — filter by the user name (see Username above). Enter a full value.
Cluster — filter by the cluster name (see Cluster above). Select a value from the drop-down list.
Action — filter by the action name (see Action above). Select a value from the drop-down list.
Status — filter by the action status (see Status above). Select a value from the drop-down list.

Filters for actions

For example, to show only the failed actions, you can click the Status filter and select the failed item in the drop-down list.

Set the Status filter

As a result of applying a filter, the table contains actions with the failed status.

Failed actions

You can also add filters by the action start time. To do this, click Add filters and select items in the drop-down list that opens.

New filters

Below is an example how to use the Start time since filter:

Add new filters as shown above.
Click the Start time since filter.

The "Start time since" filter
In the form that opens, select a timestamp starting with which you want to show actions. You can select either an interval in the left panel or a date in the calendar.

Choose the start time for actions
Click Set.
As a result, actions for a given period of time appear in the list.

Actions appear in the list

IMPORTANT

By default, the tables located both in the Actions section and on the Actions tab show the current-day actions. To view all actions, use the time filters as described above.

Action details

To view the action details, click the action identifier (Action Id) in the table located in the Actions section or on the Actions tab.

Select an action

The next page can contain the following sections:

Overview — shows the general action information.
Children — shows a list of child actions. It can be empty if the selected action has no children.
Result — shows the action result. This section is displayed only for low-level actions (without children) that have the failed status.

The "Overview" and "Children" sections

The fields displayed in the first two sections are listed below.

Fields of the Overview section
Field	Description
Parent action	The parent action identifier. Contains `-` if the selected action has no a parent. You can click the identifier to view the detailed action information
Submitted by	The user who submitted the selected action
Start	The action start timestamp in the `DD/MM/YYYY HH:mm:ss` format
End	The action end timestamp in the `DD/MM/YYYY HH:mm:ss` format
Status	The action status (see *Status* above)

Fields of the Children section
Field	Description
Action id	The child action identifier. You can click the identifier to view the detailed action information
Action	The child action name
Status	The child action status (see *Status* above)
Start	The child action start timestamp in the `DD/MM/YYYY HH:mm:ss` format
End	The child action end timestamp in the `DD/MM/YYYY HH:mm:ss` format

To find out why the selected action failed, you can look through the list of its child actions and, if necessary, their child actions (by clicking action identifiers in the first table column of the Children section). The action that caused the error has the filled Result section.

For example, the result listed below means an attempt to create a restore point before any backup is completed.

The Result section

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You can copy the result by clicking copy hover dark copy hover light in the top right corner of the code sample. This functionality can be useful for debugging errors.

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