In addition to PowerProtect DD, Observability can monitor instances of PowerProtect Data Manager. This allows users to see reports from Data Manager directly in the Observability UI. We saw earlier that instances of PowerProtect Data Manager are displayed in Data Protection tab in the multisystem view for Inventory. Selecting an individual instance of Data Manager directs the user to the details page which has four tabs: Summary, Inventory, Protection, and Compliance. Each tab is discussed below.

PowerProtect Data Manager details – Summary

The Summary tab allows the user to quickly see status and resource information for the protection environment. The Data Protected section provides total amount of protected and unprotected assets with their capacity.

The Protection Summary section summarizes the number of assets that are protected within a specified time range. The last 24 hours is the default time range, but this can be changed to either last 3 days or last 7 days. The status is critical if all protection activities failed during the selected time range. Warning means that the asset has both failed and successful protection activities. Success means all protection activities completed successfully. The assets are grouped into one of the following four backup categories: Primary, Replication, Cloud Tier, and Cloud DR.

The Compliance Summary section displays the number and percentage of assets in each of the four backup categories that are in and out of compliance with their protection policy.

The Asset Top Offenders section lists those assets with the most consecutive failures. For those assets, a link to the asset details page is available. The asset details page shows the status of the last backup and the protection history of the asset. Users can filter the Protection History table by time range, status, or activity.

PowerProtect Data Manager details – Inventory

The Inventory tab shows various configuration information at the top of the page. The bottom of the page has three tabs: Asset, Storage, and Audit.

Asset

The Asset tab shows the assets discovered by PowerProtect Data Manager along with the host, asset type, active policy, and status of the most recent backup.

Storage

The Storage tab shows the storage systems available to PowerProtect Data Manager systems. The model and total and available capacity are listed for each system.

Audit

The Audit tab aggregates the audit information from each of the PowerProtect Data Manager systems. It provides a list of changes on the system, time of the change, the user that made the change, the changed object, and the old and new values.

PowerProtect Data Manager details – Protection

The Protection tab provides additional details of the protection status for each asset. This tab includes the following:

• Asset name and the host on which it is running
• Asset type (VM, Database, File System, VMAX Storage Group, or Kubernetes)
• Name of the active protection policy
• Status of each protection activity for the asset

A dash indicates that protection activity is not configured for the asset.

PowerProtect Data Manager Details – Compliance

The Compliance tab displays details of each asset’s compliance for each configured activity to the defined service level agreements in the protection policy. This tab includes the asset name and the host on which it is running, the asset type, the active policy, SLA name, activity type, status, and the number of failed objectives.

For instances where there is a compliance failure, the Details button provides additional information. This information includes the failed objective, the error code, the reason, and remediation.