Locating Information

適用於: System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

After you implement your monitoring schedule, you will observe certain trends and notice various alerts. You might 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. The following table lists a number of references that you can use to locate information that will help you answer many common questions.

Information Locations

What do you want to know? Look here:

Does anything need my attention?

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

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

  • Monitoring task area, Alerts tab

Did all the backups that were supposed to happen yesterday happen correctly?

Is there an issue that keeps coming up?

Are recovery goals being met?

  • Status report

  • Protection report

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

  • Management task area, Disks tab

  • Disk Utilization report

When will a job run?

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 recovery points are available for a data source?

Are all replicas consistent?

  • Protection task area, Details pane

  • Recovery task area

What tapes are available in the library?

What data is on each tape?

Management task area, Libraries tab

Did a recovery job complete successfully?

  • Monitoring task area, Alerts tab

  • Monitoring task area, Jobs tab

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

Is the DPM server able to contact each protected computer?

Management task area, Agents tab

What is the status of the DPM service?

  • Microsoft Management Console (MMC) Services snap-in

  • Event log, in case of service failures

What problems have occurred over the past month?

  • Status report

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

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

MOM Operator console, State view

Why is recovery point creation failing for a protection group member?

Status report

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概念

Establishing a Monitoring Schedule
Managing Performance
Methods for Monitoring DPM