Dell Data Protection Advisor 19.10 Installation and Administration Guide

Preface

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Purpose

This document provides information about how to install Data Protection Advisor and set up Data Protection Advisor to monitor a data protection environment. This document also describes administrative functions such as creating users and roles, updating system settings, creating policies, and troubleshooting data collection.

ISO 9001 certification

The management system governing the design and development of this product is ISO 9001:2015 certified.

Audience

This document is intended for system administrators. Readers of this document must be familiar with the following tasks:

Identifying the different hardware and software components that make up the backup and replication environment.
Following procedures to configure backup and replication operations.
Following guidelines to locate problems and implement solutions.

Revision history

The following table presents the revision history of this document.

Table 1. Revision historyRevision history
Revision	Date	Description
04	March 2025	Updated the following sections: Installing Data Protection Advisor Administering Data Protection Advisor Self-Signed Certificate Generation Adding Application servers into setup with Database encryption Replace a self-signed certificate with a CA signed certificate Data protection advisor post installation steps - for secure communication .
03	October 2024	Updated "Replace a self-signed certificate with a CA signed certificate" and "System requirements" section.
02	April 2024	Updated the "DPA postinstallation steps" section.
01	January, 2024	First release of this document for Data Protection Advisor 19.10.

Typographical conventions

The following type style conventions are used in this document:

Table 2. Style conventionsStyle conventions
Formatting	Description
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`Italic`	Used for full titles of publications that are referenced in the text.
Monospace	Used for: System code System output, such as an error message or script Pathnames, file names, file name extensions, prompts, and syntax Commands and options
`Monospace italic`	Used for variables.
`Monospace bold`	Used for user input.
[ ]	Square brackets enclose optional values.
\|	Vertical line indicates alternate selections. The vertical line means or for the alternate selections.
{ }	Braces enclose content that the user must specify, such as x, y, or z.
...	Ellipses indicate non-essential information that is omitted from the example.

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