Reporting, Monitoring and Alerting

IDPA has Reporting as well as Monitoring and Alerting capabilities.

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REPORTING:

Data Protection Advisor (DPA) is the primary place for Reporting in IDPA.

https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000019765/dpa-how-to-schedule-reports?lang=en

Here is short video giving demonstrating scheduling reports in DPA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fcw_i-QsKx0

 

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MONITORING:

Monitoring is typically done with the various GUI interfaces available in IDPA:

ACM and DPC are good places to see the entire IDPA system overview, including all the components.

Then there are also:  Avamar AUI or Admin (java) / DD Sys Mgr / iDRAC (HW and F/W) / DPS / DPA / iDRAC etc.

 

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ALERTING:

SRS (formerly ESRS) is the primary mechanism for Alerting in IDPA.

Here are some useful facts about SRS with IDPA:

• SRS can be configured during initial IDPA deployment or anytime afterwards.
• If it has not been configured:
  • go to acm dashboard and click on the Settings icon and select Configure SRS and complete your info as shown here:

 

 

• When registering IDPA per above, the following components are registered (no additional config is needed for these):
  • ACM (Appliance Configuration Manager)
  • Avamar (Backup Server)
  • Data Domain (Protection Storage)
  • DPA (Data Protection Advisor)
• All four components will send Alerts to SRS as needed, but only Avamar and Data Domain will also send daily status reports.

 

Here are some useful SRS references:

• Here is the Dell Support SRS home page- you can search for IDPA here:
  • https://www.dell.com/support/home/en-us/product-support/product/emc-secure-remote-services/docs
• IDPA is registered with ESRS but the 4 enabled components of the IDPA are not Sending Connect Home Messages:
  • https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000060349/idpa-is-registered-with-esrs-but-the-4-enabled-co...
• IDPA - How to send test Connect Home messages from ESRS enabled Components on an IDPA:
  • https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000022877/idpa-how-to-send-test-connect-home-messages-from-...
• IDPA - DD Failing dial homes via ConnnectEMC:
  • https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000081691/idpa-dd-failing-dial-homes-via-connnectemc?lang=e...
• IDPA: Unable to register with SRS, error "Failed to register ESRS : Site ID not part of the device group":
  • https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000165513/failed-to-register-esrs-site-id-not-part-of-the-d...
• IDPA | ICMP connection and IP Reverse lookup to the Secure Remote Services (SRS) gateway is required for SRS configuration:
  • https://www.dell.com/support/kbdoc/en-us/000191843/idpa-icmp-connection-to-the-secure-remote-service...

 

Configuring email notifications in IDPA:

• acm dashboard- Customer Information section (lower right)- click Settings icon- Configure Email. It will ask for SMTP server, port (25), and administrator email address.

 

 

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