new to DPA

Your posting is a little old but since nobody answered yet, I will give you my two cents on how to learn DPA.

Aside from the obvious way, which is a formal training, the best way is to read the Manuals (which you did already) and then start working on a proper DPA configuration. You should create View(s), Report Menus and Windows time that better fit the characteristics of your environment. For example on ours we run backups from 4PM to 9AM next day. We created then, a windows time exactly for that time frame.

After that you should check for what kind of information could be valuable for your organization and then check if DPA is capable of providing that info. You might have some of those requests already.

Finally you should start working on create the reports. The best starting point is using existing DPA reports and customizing them to better fix what you need.

At this point you can use some of the report customization online training available on Powerlink:

After login to Power link go to > Support > Product and Diagnostic Tools > Data Protection Advisor Support Demos

There you have two online training that you should follow: Report Customization #1  and Report Customization #2

Those will give you the basic knowledge on editing reports, you can start then exploring all the report's source and operators and see what they can give to you. If you have issues (and you will) creating your reports you can always post your question here, and most of the time you will get some help. In addition the report's sources and operator (as the DPA in general) have a decent on line help.

In other words Jim, you can learn DPA by working with DPA (same as always), just try that your learning curve goes through what will be valuable for your organization, in that way you can start getting value our of DPA while you are learning how to use it.

I hope that helps.

Enrique

Hi James,

I just want to say thank you for your help.

Two hours overview to DPA was wonderful experience to me.  I have more confidence on DPA now.

Jim Hu

Hello,

Please let me know if there is a Command Line Interface and a guide to using the CLI for DPA v5.8.0

For a start, I hope o use the CLI to read existing query definitions and create / define new queries.

Thank you,

Priya Narasimham

Hi Priya,

There is no CLI for the DPA

Thanks,

Ahmed Bahaa