You should strongly consider installing Ops Center (on a separate server).  It's free and will give you access to a lot more historical data than you can dig out of activity monitor yourself. That'll be much easier to work with than trying to keep all of your data in the Activity Monitor...

Hi,

You have a lot of questions :)

1. You can view the job status in the activity monitor under the status field, 0 means successful, 1 means partially successful, etc etc. There are hundreds of status codes that tell you if a job suceeded, or failed, and if it failed, the specific error code tells you what might be the issue. You can find a list of the codes and the possible resolution in the troubleshooting guide. You can download it from the support site. There are also more fields which you can show or hide by adjusting the layout (right click any field at the top and go to the layout section) e.g. Kilobytes, number of files, kbytes / second etc.
2. The following technote explains what each report can show you. http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?pag...
   Skipped files for instance will be shown in the problems report or all log entries report.
3. Please search on the forum about notification there are a lot of posts.

R

Would you please clear each point one by one

Thanks, I'll take a look at ops center.  Hopefully that will offer what I'm looking for.

1.) I will likely setup email alerts

For this you configure the email notification. see the below link it may help you:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH24110

2.) For backup status there is a nice tool NOM. use it. it will be very helpful for you. See the below link for the NOM guide:

ftp://exftpp.symantec.com/pub/support/products/NetBackup_Enterprise_Server/290227.pdf

Yes,you can setup a NOM. We have that in our environment. it will be more clear to you.