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Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Cookbook

By : Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds
Book Image

Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager Cookbook

By: Charbel Nemnom, Patrick Lownds

Overview of this book

System Center Data Protection Manager (SCDPM) is a robust enterprise backup and recovery system that contributes to your BCDR strategy by facilitating the backup and recovery of enterprise data. With an increase in data recovery and protection problems faced in organizations, it has become important to keep data safe and recoverable. This book contains recipes that will help you upgrade to SCDPM and it covers the advanced features and functionality of SCDPM. This book starts by helping you install SCDPM and then moves on to post-installation and management tasks. You will come across a lot of useful recipes that will help you recover your VMware and Hyper-V VMs. It will also walk you through tips for monitoring SCDPM in different scenarios. Next, the book will also offer insights into protecting windows workloads followed by best practices on SCDPM. You will also learn to back up your Azure Stack Infrastructure using Azure Backup. You will also learn about recovering data from backup and implementing disaster recovery. Finally, the book will show you how to configure the protection groups to enable online protection and troubleshoot Microsoft Azure Backup Agent.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

Monitoring and centralized reporting


Monitoring and centralized reporting is crucial when you are protecting a large amount of data. In this recipe, we will show you how to monitor and configure centralized reporting to gain business insights using Azure Log Analytics and Power BI reports for SC DPM and MABS.

Getting ready

To monitor and configure centralized reporting, all you need is an Azure subscription. With a subscription, you can sign in to the Azure Portal and create a storage account for reports, then turn on diagnostics, and finally add the Azure Backup content pack in Power BI to monitor and view the reports. The good news is, you do not need to set up a reporting server, a database, or any other infrastructure since everything is completely managed by the Azure Backup service.

Note

Please note that central reporting is only supported starting with DPM version 1801, 1807, 1901, DPM 2019 or later, including MABS version 3 onward, with the latest MARS agent. DPM 2016 or earlier versions...