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You can enable the DPM reporting feature at any time after installing and configuring DPM.
However, to ensure that DPM has enough information to generate meaningful report data, we
recommend that you wait at least a day after starting data protection activities to begin viewing
reports. For instructions to help you enable DPM reporting, see “ Using Reports ” in DPM Help
(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=102085).
Note
When a DPM server is protecting a large number of computers, you should stagger the
delivery schedule for reports sent by e-mail. If you schedule all reports to be sent at the
same time, the memory limitations of SQL Server Reporting Services might prevent some
reports from being sent.
The following table summarizes the available reports and indicates how you should use them. For
information about interpreting the data in reports, see “ Report Types ” in DPM Help (
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=102086).
DPM Reports
Report Name Summary of Contents
Status The Status report provides the status of all recovery
points for a specified time period, lists recovery jobs,
and shows the total number of successes and failures
for recovery points and disk-based and tape-based
recovery point creations. This report shows trends in
the frequency of errors that occur and lists the number
of alerts.
Use this report to answer questions such as the
following:
• What happened yesterday? Last week? Last
month?
• What succeeded and what failed?
• What is the trend of errors? Which errors occur
most frequently?
• Are we achieving the recovery point objective
(RPO) established in our service level agreement
(SLA)?
Note
The Status report includes the error codes for
any alerts recorded during the report period.
To view the error message associated with an
error code, see the Error Code Catalog
(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=91861).