Book Image

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

Using the DPM Scoped Console


By installing the DPM Central Console, you enable a new feature of DPM, and this feature is called the DPM Scoped Console. The DPM Scoped Console can be used to help with troubleshooting. With the DPM Scoped Console, if alerts are raised in SCOM, you can click the Troubleshoot button and you will be directly taken to the DPM Administration Console, which you can then use to troubleshoot your DPM environment.

Getting ready

You must have the Microsoft System Center DPM Central Console installed. The DPM Central Console can be installed on a server operating system running Windows Server 2008 R2 or above, or a Windows client operating system running Windows 7 or above. In the previous recipe, we installed the DPM Central Console on the SCOM Server.

 

How to do it...

The following steps will guide you through using the DPM Scoped Console in SCOM:

  1. From the Start screen, select Microsoft System Center and then select Operations Console. The SCOM Operations Console will load...