DPM Console

DPM Console has main 5 tabs
1. Monitoring:- This area allows us to monitor the status of DPM Operations, further it having two sub tabs: Alerts and Jobs.
a) Alerts :- This displays messages about agents, backup and restore procedures.
b) Jobs :-This display the status of jobs and the tasks associated with them.

2. Protection :- In this area we can manage the Protection Groups, Protection Schedules, disk allocations, etc. We can also synchronize and create a Recovery Point.

3. Recovery :- In this area we can recover data that has been protected by the Protection Groups. We can see all the servers and protected items in a single view. We can use the calendar to see the days and specific times that we have a recovery point available. We can also see which media has the selected recovery point (disk or tape).

4.Reporting :- The Reporting Service has some reports that allow administrators to measure some items, such as: statistics, performance that might help with hardware resource capacity planning. There are some built in reports
Disk Utilization, Protection, Recovery, Status,Tape management and Tape utilization.

5. Managent :- In the Management Area the DPM Server components which interact with the servers and store the data. These items are: Agents, Disks and Tape library