Report Types

Applies To: System Center 2012 R2 Data Protection Manager, System Center 2012 SP1 - Data Protection Manager, System Center Data Protection Manager 2010

DPM reporting offers six standard reports that you can generate, review, and analyze. These reports help you realize the full benefits of System Center 2012 – Data Protection Manager (DPM). The following table lists the reports and their definitions. You can click the links to view more details about the reports.

Report Type Description

Status report

Includes status of recently run recovery point creation and recovery jobs. The report shows trends in the frequency of errors that occur and lists the number of alerts.

Disk utilization reports

Provides a summary view of disk capacity, allocation, and usage of disk space for the DPM storage pool. The data is collected per computer and is aggregated for all computers. You can use this report to identify the costs associated with backup for various protected computers plus identify trends in disk usage to plan for capacity.

Recovery reports

Provides details about recovery times and statistics of recovery jobs for tracking recovery performance. The data is collected per computer or protection group and is aggregated for all computers.

Tape management reports

Provides details for managing tape rotation and decommissioning tapes. The report also displays which tapes are due to be brought back from recycling. The data is collected per library and aggregated for all libraries.

Tape utilization reports

Provides trends in tape utilization to assist in capacity planning and making decisions about allocating additional tapes.

Recovery point status reports

The Recovery Point Status report provides the recovery point status of all selected data sources. This report gives administrators a high-level view of whether backup service-level agreements (SLAs) are being met for every data source.

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