Figure 58 Service management information flow

Native Data Protector functionality

The functionality described in the following sections comes with Data Protector “out of the box.”

Key functions

•Data Protector has been equipped to track the elapsed times of key operations and to register this data as well as volume data using the Application Response Measurement Version 2.0 API (ARM 2.0 API). Registration of this data can be performed with HP Performance Agent (PA).

•Built-in monitoring of running sessions allows you to instantly react to occurrences in your backup environment.

•The Data Protector built-in notification and reporting engine allows you to receive concise reports as well as immediate alerts in many different formats (such as ASCII, HTML, and spreadsheet compatible format) and delivered in various ways (such as e-mail, SNMP, broadcast (available on Windows only), write to file, and send to external command). As the Data Protector built-in notification engine can

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