Data Protector checking and maintenance mechanism

Data Protector has a rich automated daily self-check and maintenance mechanism, which improves its operational reliability and predictability. Data Protector’s self-check and maintenance tasks include:

•“Not Enough Free Media” check

•“Data Protector License Expiration” check

For more information, see the online Help index: “checks performed by Data Protector”.

Central management, distributed environment

The Data Protector MoM enables administrators to centrally manage an enterprise environment consisting of several Data Protector Cell Managers. The MoM system administrator performs configuration, media management, monitoring, and status reporting tasks for the whole enterprise from a single console. With MoM, managing many Data Protector Cell Managers is as convenient as managing just one. IT service providers can administer larger clients’ environments without adding employees. For more information on MoM, see the online Help index: “MoM environment“.

Using the data provided by Data Protector

What can I do with the data?

Here are some examples of what you can do with the data that Data Protector provides:

•Real-time alerting of backup or restore sessions that exceed the specified time window (PA).

•Creating graphs of backup duration of key systems in your environment to detect trends in operation time (PM).

•Forecasting of the IDB growth to be able to spot points in time where certain limits will be reached (PM Planner).

•Regular e-mail reports to back up operators, end users, and management (Data Protector built-in reporting with the capability to send e-mails).

•Backup reports written to a Web server to make them available on an on-demand basis (built-in Data Protector reporting with the capability to write HTML).

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