Locating Information

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Published : September 27, 2005

After you implement your monitoring schedule, you will observe certain trends and notice various alerts. You may want to investigate the issues underlying the alerts, troubleshoot problems, or analyze some of the trends. DPM provides a number of resources to help you with your research. Table 2.2 lists a number of references that you can use to locate information that will help you answer many common questions.

Table 2.2   Information Locations

What do you want to know?

Look here:

Does anything need my attention?

Are there new servers that are not currently being protected?

Are there any changes on the protected file servers that affect data protection?

  • E-mail notifications of alerts, if you subscribe to them

    -or-

  • Monitoring task area, Alerts tab

Do I need to add disk space to the storage pool?

  • Management task area, Disks tab

    -or-

  • Disk Utilization Report

When will a job occur?

How long did the last consistency check take?

How much data was transferred by the most recent synchronization job?

Monitoring task area, Jobs tab

How many shadow copies are available for a volume?

Are all replicas consistent?

  • Protection task area, Details pane

    -or-

  • Protection task area: click Manage shadow copies

    -or-

  • Recovery task area

Did a recovery job complete successfully?

  • Monitoring task area, Alerts tab

    -or-

  • Monitoring task area, Jobs tab

    -or-

  • E-mail notification. (If you subscribe to e-mail notification when you initiate a recovery.)

Is the DPM server able to contact each protected file server?

Management task area, Agents tab

What is the status of the DPM service?

  • Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Services snap-in

    -also-

  • Event log, in case of service failures

What problems have occurred over the past month?

Monitoring task area, Alerts tab, with Show inactive alerts selected

What is the status of each of my DPM servers and the file servers that they protect?

MOM Operator console, State view