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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

Publishing the DPM logs


The monitoring of Microsoft System Center Data DPM server alerts is not enabled by default. When enabled, DPM will publish alerts into the DPM alerts event log on the local DPM server. These alerts can then be seen in Windows Event Viewer. Once these alerts are published, you can use external monitoring tools such as SCOM or a third-party management product to monitor DPM and collect those events.

Note

SCOM has a number of capabilities that are much broader than just monitoring DPM, and so I would advise that you go to https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/scom/welcome to understand the full capabilities of Microsoft System Center DPM.

Getting ready

To set up the monitoring of Microsoft System Center DPM, you will need to access the DPM Administrator Console to configure Alert Publishing. To be able to use the DPM Administrator Console, you will need to be logged on to the DPM server with a domain-based account that has membership of the DPM server's local administrators...