Has anyone figured a good way to monitor the success or fail

[anetdoc]

Has anyone figured a good way to monitor the success or failue of arc serve backup jobs?
Notes from my attempts:
Method 1) If we look at nt event logs, we have to set it up to only check the logs once a day (or once per backup). If refresh is hit, it wont find the success event and give a false failue.

Method 2)I have had Arcserve run a post job (a batch file that creates a text file ) that does not run on incomple or failed jobs . I test the date of that text file to see if it is less than a day old. That works but if there is not tape in the drive, arcserve cancles the job and triggers the batch file wich gives a false indication of sucess. I dont think you can stop arcserve from triggering the post jb on cancled jobs.

Note:
Any test done needs to audit for sucess as opposed to failure becase if we only look for failure and the backup job stops running for any reaon (job on hold, stopped service, etc) you will not get a failure and you will get a false indication of success.

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[KS-Soft]

>Method 1) If we look at nt event logs, we have to set it up to only check the logs once a day (or once per backup). If refresh is hit, it wont find the success event and give a false failue.

I think you can use Schedule to restrict posible execution time. E.g. You can allow test execution only from 01:10 till 01:15

Regards
Alex