Working with Task Areas

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Published : April 8, 2005 | Updated : August 17, 2005

DPM Administrator Console contains five task areas: Monitoring, Protection, Recovery, Reporting, and Management. The Actions pane provides access to functionality associated with the current task and, in some cases, the item selected in the Display pane.

Table A.1 provides an overview of operations you can perform within each task area. For detailed information about working with task areas, see DPM Help (https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=46350).

Table A.1    Task Areas and Associated Actions

Task Area

Actions

Monitoring

The Monitoring task area enables you to monitor the status of data protection, data recovery, and other DPM operations.

  • The Alerts tab displays errors, warnings, and informational messages. You can group alerts by protection group, server, or severity, and you can choose to display active alerts exclusively or to display both active alerts and a history of inactive alerts. You can also subscribe to notifications to receive alerts via e-mail.

  • The Jobs tab displays the status of jobs and their associated tasks. You can group jobs by protection group, server, status, or type, and you can filter jobs by time period. You can choose whether to include regularly scheduled synchronization operations in the list of jobs.

Protection

The Protection task area enables you to:

  • Create, rename, and manage members of protection groups.

  • Manage protection schedules, disk allocations, and other options.

  • Run manual synchronization and consistency check jobs.

  • Manage shadow copies.

  • Review and respond to results of Auto Discovery.

Recovery

The Recovery task area enables you to find and recover data from shadow copies, and to configure end-user recovery.

  • The Browse tab enables you to browse for available shadow copies by protected file server, and also allows you to manually create shadow copies.

  • The Search tab enables you to search for available shadow copies based on file or folder name and shadow copy time.

Reporting

The Reporting task area enables you to:

  • Generate and view reports on DPM operations.

  • Schedule automatic report generation.

  • Manage Reporting Services settings.

Management

The Management task area enables you to manage file agents and storage pool disks.

  • The Agents tab displays a list of file agents deployed on file servers, and enables you to install, uninstall, and update the agents, and to update agent licenses.

  • The Disks tab displays a list of disks included in the storage pool, and enables you to add and remove disks from the pool.