From the monitor’s user interface, you can abort a backup, restore, or media management session or respond to “mount” requests.

If you make use of the Manager-of-Managers, you can monitor sessions of multiple cells simultaneously from one user interface.

Reporting and notification

Data Protector reporting represents a powerful, customizable, and flexible tool for managing and planning your backup environment. Data Protector has always had a rich set of built-in reports that system administrators have relied upon to manage Cell Managers. IT Service Providers now can use these same reports to demonstrate data protection SLA compliance. Built-in reports that are especially relevant to service level management include:

•Inventory/Status Reports such as the host_not_conf report, which contains information about unprotected systems, the dl_sched report, which lists all scheduled backups, object copy, and object consolidation as well as the media_list report, which is a media inventory report.

•Capacity Utilization Reports such as the licensing report, which is a Data Protector license utilization report, and the dev_unused report, which lists devices that are currently not used for backup, object copy, or object consolidation and are consequently available.

•Problem Reports such as the session_statistics report, which consists of information about failed backup, copy, and consolidation sessions. An administrator can receive an hourly, daily, or weekly E-mail report on failed jobs and the reasons for failure.

The notification and reporting capabilities that have always been part of the Cell Manager (and that have been extended significantly from earlier versions) also allow you to:

•Choose from numerous pre-configured reports (including, but not limited to, reports such as sessions in a specific time frame, IDB reports, and device usage report)

•Specify your own parameters for those reports (such as time frames, backup, copy, and consolidation specifications, and groups of backups)

•Select from various different output formats (such as ASCII, HTML, and spreadsheet compatible formats)

•Schedule those reports with the Data Protector built-in scheduler

•Trigger report sending based on events (such as device failure, mount requests, and end of sessions)

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