Manage and monitor DPM servers with Operations Manager

Central Console is a System Center Operations Manager console that you can deploy to manage and monitor multiple System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) servers from a single location. It provides:

• Centralized monitoring of DPM servers from a single location - You can monitor different versions of DPM, and track the status and health of servers, tasks, protected resources, tape libraries, available storage and disk space, and backups.
• Service-level agreement (SLA)-based alerting. Alerts are generated when an SLA is broken.
• View the state of all roles on DPM servers
• Monitor, identify, action, and troubleshoot alerts generated when an SLA breaks. You can consolidate alerts to show:
  • only one instance for repeated alerts,
  • single alert for alerts with the same root cause or if multiple backups fail for the same data source,
  • and generate only one ticket if a ticketing system is used.
• Remote corrective actions and remote recovery
• Monitor DPM server memory, CPU, disk resources, database, and performance trends
• Modify and manage settings, including disk allocation, recovery points, users, and protect groups
• Recover data

Setting up Central Console

What you need:

• A System Center Operations Manager server running 2016. The Operations Manager Data Warehouse must be up and running.
• View the state of all roles on DPM servers.
• To install the Management Packs, the DPM server must be running at least DPM 2012 R2 with Update Rollup 5 or DPM 2016.
• If you're running a previous version of the Discover and Library Management Packs obtained from the DPM installation media, you should remove them from the DPM server and install the new versions from the download page.
• You can only run one language version of the Management Pack at one time. If you want to use the pack in a different language, uninstall the pack in the existing language and then install it with the new language.

You deploy Central Console as follows:

1. Install the Operations Manager agent - Install the Operations Manager agent on each DPM server you want to manage and monitor.

2. Import the DPM discovery and library management packs - Download the packs and install them on the Operations Manager server.

3. Install Central Console - Install the Central Console on the Operations Manager server.

4. Import the DPM reporting management pack - Download the pack and install it on the Operations Manager server.

Install the Operations Manager agent

Install the agent as follows:

1. Install the agent on each DPM server you want to monitor.

2. Get the latest agent version.

Import the DPM discovery and library management packs

DPM provides the following management packs:

• Reporting management pack (Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataProtectionManager.2012.Reporting.mp) - Collects and displays reporting data from all DPM servers, and exposes a set of Operations Manager warehouse views for DPM. You can query these views to generate custom reports.

• Discovery and monitoring management pack (Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataProtectionManager.2012.Discovery.mp)

• Library management pack - (Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataProtectionManager.2012.Library)

1. On the Operations Manager server, remove any existing DPM management packs.

2. Download the DPM management packs.

   By default, the download places the Discovery and Library Management Packs in the C:\Program Files\System Center Management Packs folder. The Reporting Management Pack is placed in a separate folder inside that folder.

3. Log on to the Operations Manager server with an account that is a member of the Operations Manager Administrators role.

4. Remember to remove any previous versions of the Library or Discover Management Packs running on the server.

5. In the Operations console, select Administration. Right-click Management Packs > Import Management Packs.

6. Select Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataProtectionManagerDiscovery.MP > Open and then Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataProtectionManagerLibrary.MP > Open.

7. Follow the instructions in the Import Management Packs wizard.

Install the Central Console

1. Select Install Central Console Server and Client side Components if you want to monitor DPM servers that have the Operations Manager agent installed and run the DPM administrator console on the Operations Manager server.

2. Select Install Central Console Server side Components if you only want to monitor servers without using the scoped DPM Administrator console.

Import the reporting management pack

1. Log on to the Operations Manager server with an account that is a member of the Operations Manager Administrators role.

2. In the Operations console, select Administration. Right-click Management Packs > Import Management Packs.

3. Select Microsoft.SystemCenter.DataProtectionManagerReporting.MP > Open.

4. Follow the instructions in the Import Management Packs wizard.

Next steps

After you import the Management Packs, they discover and monitor data without requiring any additional configuration. You can optionally tweak settings like monitors and rules for your environment. For example, if you find that performance-measuring rules that are enabled degrade server performance with slow WAN links, you can disable them. When you have everything configured as needed, you can generate the DPM reports from the Operations Manager.