Understanding Management Pack Operations
Applies To: Operations Manager 2007
By using the DPM Management Pack, an administrator can centrally monitor the state of data protection and recovery for multiple DPM servers and the computers that they protect. The Management Pack also monitors key health and performance indicators on DPM servers.
For DPM servers, the DPM Management Pack monitors the state of DPM database and service health, server performance, and key indicators such as disk availability and configuration changes to volumes protected by DPM. For protected computers, the DPM Management Pack monitors the state of connectivity with DPM, data recovery operations for protected volumes, and replicas and recovery points that are stored on the DPM server.
Management Pack Monitoring Capabilities
| Scenario | Monitored Conditions and Tasks |
|---|---|
Monitor DPM servers |
Are the databases that DPM uses healthy and available for performing protection activities? Have DPM service failures occurred? Are CPU usage and memory usage on DPM servers within normal performance ranges? Can DPM access all disks that have been assigned to the DPM storage pool? Are permissions for end-user recovery being successfully updated to ensure that only authorized users can retrieve earlier versions of protected data? Have configuration changes to protected volumes caused potential lapses in protection? |
Monitor data protection activities on computers protected by DPM |
Can DPM connect to DPM protection agents on protected servers to perform protection activities? Are DPM administrators successfully recovering earlier versions of protected data from the DPM storage pool? Are initial replicas created successfully when a new protection group is added? Are all replicas on the DPM server consistent with their data sources on the protected computers? Are synchronizations and consistency checks for volumes that are protected in DPM failing? Are scheduled recovery points being created successfully to ensure access to earlier versions of protected data sources? |
Diagnose and resolve problems on a remote DPM server |
Start and stop the DPM service on a remote DPM server. Ping a DPM server or a protected computer. |
State Monitoring Definitions
This Management Pack provides state monitoring based on the definitions described in the following table.
Management Pack State Monitoring Definitions
| State | Health State |
|---|---|
Green (Success) |
Operations are completing successfully. |
Green (Informational) |
Informational alerts are present that you might want to act on. |
Yellow (Warning) |
Conditions exist that could cause future issues. |
Red (Critical Error) |
A serious problem needs immediate attention. |
Resolving Alerts Manually
When you resolve an alert manually, the health monitor does not show the updated state automatically. Perform the following steps to update the health monitor.
Open the Operations console.
Browse to the monitor of the alert you resolved.
Click Reset Health State.
See Also
Concepts
Objects the Management Pack Discovers
How Health Rolls Up
Key Monitoring Scenarios