Monitor specific tasks
Updated: May 13, 2016
Applies To: System Center 2012 SP1 - Data Protection Manager, System Center 2012 - Data Protection Manager, System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager
The following table summarizes suggestions for using monitoring, alerts, and reporting to answer common questions.
Information Locations
| Question | Verify |
|---|---|
| Does anything need my attention? Are there any changes on the protected computers that affect data protection? |
- Get email alert notification set up - Check for alerts |
| Did backups work as expected? Is there an issue that keeps coming up? Are recovery goals being met? |
- Run a status report - Run a protection report |
| Do I need to add disk space to the storage pool? | - Check disk status - Run a disk utilization report |
| When will a job run? How long did the last consistency check take? How much data was transferred by the most recent synchronization job? |
Check jobs status |
| How many recovery points are available for a data source? Are all replicas consistent? |
- Check the Details pane in Protection. - Check the Recovery task area. |
| What tapes are available in the library? What data is on each tape? |
Check libraries status. |
| Did a recovery job complete successfully? | - Check alerts and jobs status - Set up email notification when recovery is initiated. |
| Is the DPM server able to contact each protected computer? | Check agents status. |
| What is the status of the DPM service? | - Check services in Windows and the event log if service failures occur. |
| What problems have occurred over the past month? | - Run a status report. - Check for inactive alerts. |
| What is the status of each of my DPM servers and the computers that they protect? | Use the Central Console. |
| Why is recovery point creation failing for a protection group member? | Run a status report |