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IDATATools runs on Windows, Linux and Solaris. The following table describes the basic functionality of each command. Full documentation is available here.

IDATATool	Functionality
backup-report	·        Produce and email a standard report for either the previous days backup or a nominated period of time in CSV, HTML or Excel.
check-clients	·        Perform a variety of connectivity, stability and performance related tests on one or more clients ·        Rapidly assemble data that can be used when logging support calls ·        Run centralised client performance testing ·        Report media space used by each client
client-report	·        Document the client configuration in CSV, HTML or XLS ·        Standard detailed report for administrators ·        Executive report for management and other staff to show what is being backed up ·        Filter on groups, clients and savesets
dbufree	·        Allows administrators to quickly free staging space by specifying the amount of data to be staged from any device ·        Specify a maximum size of stage portion and how long to pause between stage operations ·        Skip larger savesets in order to free up space faster ·        Allows evacuation of disk backup units that are experiencing hardware issues and require relocation of data ·        Selectively target savesets based on level, group, client name, or any other valid mminfo query criteria
deptree	·        Build a visual representation of savesets relationships ·        Assist in establishing full backups are occurring ·        Determine why volumes are not recycling
devmon	·        Write device performance statistics in CSV format ·        Build device activity profiles over an extended period of time for easy analysis in spreadsheet software
find-files	·        Search client indexes for files regardless of client or saveset ·        Automate file searches and volume/saveset discovery ·        Exclude criteria from search to narrow results
group-control	·        Stop/start/restart a group ·        Report on group status - idle/running/failed/successful/clone failure or success
idata-notify	·        Sends savegroup completion notifications with group status in the subject ·        Filter out irrelevant output ·        Add data totals to the email ·        Report when the last full for that client occured ·        Include diagnostics and failure analysis in emails
list-resources	·        Quickly list the names of all or individual resource types ·        List the name and specified fields for any resource type ·        Output using desired field separator
mediafree	·       Primarily for VTL use ·       Provides a user specified count of volumes with all savesets cloned ·       Optionally relabel those volumes into a chosen pool or a scratch pool
recyclable-volumes	·        Produce a list of volumes ready for recycling ·        Order recyclable volumes by last access time or barcode ·        Email recyclable volume report for automated notification to operators
review-res	·        Document a complete NetWorker configuration in HTML format ·        Different levels of verbosity ·        Able to read a zip file of the res directory ·        Advises of potential issues in the configuration
sslocate	·        Used to report on and manage cloning ·        Can locate and report on savesets from a source pool being present for one or more target pools ·        Can locate and report on savesets from a source pool being missing for one or more target pools ·        Clone savesets missing in one or more target pools ·        Specify a maximum size of clone portion and how long to pause between clone operations to allow access to devices by other operations  ·        Reports to screen, CSV or XLS with emailing of reports ·        Accepts additional arguments in mminfo format