Data Protector Checking And Maintenance Mechanism; Central Management, Distributed Environment; Using The Data Provided By Data Protector - HP B6960-96035 Concepts Manual

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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