Dell PowerProtect DD Management Center (DDMC) 7.9 Installation and Administration Guide

How DDMC helps monitor DD systems

The monitoring tools of DDMC let you examine a wide array of operational information about managed systems.

After a DD system is added to DDMC, all historical information for that system is copied to DDMC.

When operational data changes on a system, the system notifies DDMC, which immediately polls the system to get the latest operational data.

DDMC monitoring tools draw on this data for current and historical reporting and for creating trend projections.

DDMC monitoring tools are highly visual – using charts, graphs, and color coding to help you interpret essential data points and easily notice alerts for critical markers.

DDMC monitoring tools help you focus on areas of interest. They can show mile-high status checks of all managed systems and check a specific group of systems, as well as drill-down to check the health or operational history of a single system’s components. For capacity monitoring, you can easily check current operation and historical data and perform capacity predictions based on usage trends.

Using the filtering and grouping options that are provided on monitoring pages, DDMC lets you easily shape your data presentation so you can focus on viewing just the information you need.

In addition to data provided on the interface, you can generate reports to compile operational data that can be exported. Reports can be generated ad hoc or scheduled and emailed to a list of interested parties.