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

Controls

In the upper left are controls to Add (green +), Edit (yellow pencil), Delete (red X) Tenants, and a Tenant (Unit) Details (blue i) icon that displays the Tenant (Unit) Details Lightbox (depending on what is selected). You can also right-click each node in the tree to perform these functions. RBAC (role-based access control) controls all of these actions.

All Tenants tree

Below the controls is the Tenant tree, from which you can create and manage Tenants, Tenant Units, and provisioned storage.

The All Tenants node is always displayed and lets you create Tenant objects.

Each node has a control to its left, indicating its Warning or Offline status. This status rolls up to the Tenant and All Tenant nodes. Also, controls for creating, editing, or deleting states are displayed while each operation is in progress. Some actions may not be allowed, depending on the different state or status of the nodes. If there are Tenant Units under a Tenant with the same name, an information icon is displayed for the Tenant node.

The Unmanaged node is displayed only if there are unmanaged Tenant Units available. The only actions that are allowed on the Unmanaged node and Unmanaged Tenant Units are Add all to Tenant and Add to Tenant, respectively, and these actions are available only through the right-click context menus.

The user can click "Unmanaged", and then, in the right pane can select all tenant-units or single/multiple tenant-unit(s) to add to Tenant. The user then clicks the link "Add to Tenant" to add selected tenant-unit(s) to tenant.

Summary area

At the right is a summary.

When All Tenants is selected, the summary shows the total number of Tenants, Tenant Units, and host systems. You can see if any of the Tenants or Tenant Units are offline or have configuration problems in different severity panels. You can also see the number of unassigned Tenant Units.

When you select a Tenant or Tenant Unit, the summary includes (depending on the item) the name, status, administrator name and email, host systems, data center location, alerts, and MTree and storage information, DD Boost Users, Tenant Self-Service information, and Report schedule and recipients.

Configuration problems

Tenants can be configured directly on Data Domain and PowerProtect systems. This may lead to Tenant name and ID conflicts when these systems are managed by DDMC. DDMC lets you resolve Tenant conflicts by either consolidating the Tenants into one or separating the Tenants with unique names and IDs.

Generating reports, looking at health, changing locations

To generate reports about Tenants or individual Tenant Units, select Reports > Management.

To see the general health for Tenants and Tenant Units, select Health > Status, Health > Alerts, and/or Health > Jobs.

To change a Data Center Location, select Administration > Properties and edit the Data Center property. Each DD system must be explicitly assigned a value for Data Center in Infrastructure > Systems. If a system has a Data Center property that is assigned, it is grouped under All in the Create Tenant Unit wizard.