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May 5th, 2011 03:00

historical bandwidth usage

I am trying to find the past why to view historical bandwidth usage data on RecoverPoint

  • bhendu

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    Posted May 5th, 2011 05:00

    Although RecoverPoint does have some built-in reporting, EMC's Data Protection Advisor for Replication Analysis (DPA-RA) is a nice tool that can help with long-term trending, analysis, and predictive reporting and help you set alerts based on your pre-defined service levels.   It captures historical bandwidth usage in a database - so you can store it as long as you want.

    Here's a short video that describes some of the RecoverPoint integration:

    Let me know if you have any additional questions.

    Thanks,

    Brian

    Product Marketing, DPA-RA

  • RickBrunner1

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    Posted May 5th, 2011 10:00

    In addition to DPA option which is a great solution for this need and adds much more such as gap analysis of you replication protection.

    RP does have historical data tracking within the product.  This can be gathered via the export_consolidated_statistics from the CLI.  The CLI admin guide provides the details of how to utilize this command.  This will output the data in CSV format which can be used by an EXCEL based available on PowerLink to generate graphs.

    -rick

  • PDE1

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    Posted May 5th, 2011 12:00

    The Recoverpoint Administrators Guide_3.3.pdf has a detailed section called 'Monitoring and analyzing system performance', starting on p. 217. It lists the components that can be monitored and contains definitions for the output statistics of the Consolidated Statistics command. You will likely find it a good starting point. The admin guide for various versions of RP can be found on Powerlink at...

    Home > Support > Technical Documentation and Advisories > Software ~ P-R ~ Documentation > RecoverPoint > Maintenance/Administration

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