Dell EMC Data Protection Advisor 19.8 Installation and Administration Guide

Preface

As part of an effort to improve its product lines, Dell EMC periodically releases revisions of its software and hardware. Therefore, some functions described in this document might not be supported by all versions of the software or hardware currently in use. The product release notes provide the most up-to-date information on product features.

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Purpose

This document provides information on how to install Data Protection Advisor (DPA) and set up DPA 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 history
Revision	Date	Description
03	September, 2023	Updated the "Monitoring of PowerProtect Data Manager" section.
02	February, 2023	Updated the following sections: Upgrading with Datastore Replication enabled with DPA 6.3 and later Importing the DPA Datastore Before starting the Discovery Wizard for monitoring Data Domain Limitations
01	December, 2022	First release of this document for DPA 19.8.

Typographical conventions

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Table 2. Style conventionsThis table describes style conventions used.
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`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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