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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

Creating custom reports


Microsoft System Center DPM integrates into SQL Server Reporting Services to create custom reports. In the Reporting task area of the Administration Console, you can generate and view custom reports, schedule report generation, manage report settings, and subscribe to reports.

DPM includes a number of SQL Server views that can be used to create custom reports. SQL Server views provide a much simpler way to query SQL tables directly, by populating columns of data collected from multiple tables stored in the SQL database. Here, you don't need in-depth knowledge about the entire SQL Server database or the underlying relationship between tables and keys.

Note

The use of SQL Server views can degrade the overall performance if used frequently and this is because the view is dynamically generating the data each time the view is queried.

Getting ready

In order to generate a custom report, you will need to access the reporting service on your Microsoft System Center DPM server...