Establishing a Monitoring Schedule

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Published : September 27, 2005

After you begin protecting your data, DPM operations require little intervention from you. When a situation does require action, you will be informed by an alert. For information on responding to alerts, see the “Resolving Alerts” (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=51906) section in Data Protection Manager Help . We recommend that you establish a monitoring schedule and follow it routinely so that you are aware of trends and troubleshooting issues, and so that you can respond quickly to any problems that require your attention. Table 2.1 lists suggestions for a monitoring schedule.

Table 2.1   Suggested Monitoring Schedule

At this interval…

Check these sources…

And look for these…

Daily

  • Critical and warning alerts

  • E-mail notifications (if they are configured)

Replica issues, agent issues

Weekly

  • Informational alerts

  • Status of all protected items The color and shape of visual indicators provide information about current status. See Table 2.3.

  • Membership changes

  • New servers found that might need to be protected

  • Shadow copy failure trend

  • Visual indicators. If all indicators are green, data sources are being successfully protected.

Monthly

Reports:

  • Administrator Recovery

  • Disk Utilization

  • Network Traffic

  • Synchronization

  • Shadow Copy

Trends and patterns that may indicate problems or potential issues

On Demand

Recovery job status

Recovery job failures