10 | Monitoring System Center Data Protection Manager with Operations Manager Gordon McKenna | MVP & CEO | Inframon Symon Perriman | Vice President | 5nine Software

Data Protection Manager MP Overview Configuration Reports, Views and Tasks Best Practices Demo: Viewing data collected by the Data Protection Manager MP Acquiring the Management Pack

Data Protection Manager Management Pack Overview The Data Protection Manager Management Pack monitors the health and availability of Data Protection Manager including: DPM Servers - Disk Backups Protection Groups - Tape Backups Tape Drives - Azure Backups Tape Libraries - Health State monitoring for workloads such as Data Sources Exchange Server, Hyper-V and SQL Server Performance monitoring of the Data Protection Manager environment can be performed by using the Windows Server Operating System and SQL Server Management Packs and can include: DPM Disk Space - DPM Server Memory Utilization DPM Server Processor Utilization - DPM Server SQL Database size The DPM Central Console can be used to manage DPM remotely

Configuring the Data Protection Manager Management Pack Import the DPM Management Packs Install a MMA on all DPM Servers Install the DPM Central Console Install and configure the DPM User Roles

Data Protection Manager Management Pack Reports There are no reports included in the Management Pack as DPM has its own built-in Reporting You can use the DPM Central Console to access DPM reports remotely DPM Reports include: Disk Utilization Recovery Status Tape Management Recovery Point Status Tape Utilization

Data Protection Manager Management Pack Views The Data Protection Manager Management Pack provides a number of views including: Azure Backup Alerts Disk Backup Alerts Tape Backup Alerts Disk Infrastructure Alerts State Views including: Disk Protected Servers Protection Groups Tape Drives Tape Libraries

Data Protection Manager Management Pack Tasks Tasks provided with the Data Protection Manager Management Pack include: Manage DPM Server Ping DPM Server Resume Azure Backups Resume Disk Backups Run DPM Disk Rescan Run DPM Library Refresh Run DPM Library Rescan View Alerts View Jobs

Data Protection Manager Management Pack Best Practices Create a Management Pack to Store Overrides Install and configure the DPM User Roles appropriately Use the DPM Central Console to manage DPM remotely Use the DPM Server Tasks to manager DPM remotely

Viewing data collected by the Data Protection Manager Management Pack

Acquiring the Data Protection Manager Management Pack Download link for System Center 2012 R2 Evaluation http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/evaluate-system- center-2012-r2 You cannot download the Data Protection Management Packs from the Download Center The Data Protection Management Packs are available on the DPM media in the following folder: \ManagementPacks\en-US