Dell PowerVault DP600 - Manual (Page 24)

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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,