Backup Assessment Tool for PowerProtect Data Manager

Customers like to get insights into their backup environment to make informed decisions like capacity trending, performance management, incidents reduction and optimise the operations. Generally this is done through a manual process which relies on various metrics collected at different intervals from different systems. It becomes a challenge when the environment is large and trying to corelate backup size vs performance and dedupe vs throughput etc.

PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM) is a modern data protection software to protect VMs, DBs, Physical, NAS, Kubernetes and Cloud workloads. It has a easy to use intuitive UI and powerful REST API for customers who wish to manage centrally or automate some of the repeated tasks using REST API.

By leveraging PPDM’s powerful REST API and the Python Pandas library, we have created an “Assessment Tool” which makes a series of REST API calls to gather information about assets being protected, backup size, performance, deduplication, capacity over a period, slow clients, large clients and many more stats which can be used to optimise and improve backup operations.

This tool can be scheduled to run on a periodic basis to send reports and store them for future analysis and record keeping. The code has been uploaded to the following Git repo

https://github.com/rjainoje/ppdm-at 

The following screenshot shows the tool run from the CLI

This is the summary page of the report that provides a summary of the activity in the environment 

This is graph show backup activity over time. This is very valuable for trend analysis

The assets ta shows details about all assets under PPDM's management

Finally, you can see the PPDM tool in action in this video: