HP Data Protector Reporter

Multisite enterprise reporting and SLA compliance validation

Data sheet
Organizations are facing significant
challenges managing their backup
environment; in particular analyzing,
trouble shooting, and optimizing backup
has become increasingly complicated.
The introduction of new regulations and
service level agreements (SLAs) adds
complexities, while server virtualization
sprawl has dramatically increased backup
forecasting and planning needs. Critical to
helping address these challenges is backup
reporting software.
More than 41,000 customers around the
world rely on HP Data Protector software
to simplify application and data protection
in virtual and physical environments
through unified recovery and advanced
automation. For customers who require the
most advanced reporting capabilities, we
provide Data Protector Reporter software.
HP Data Protector Reporter is customer
installable software that delivers centralized,
automated reporting to improve operations
and infrastructure.

Reduce business risk, increase

IT efficiency

media managers, library, and tape drive

visibility, as well as access backup session
information (figure 1). Data Protector Reporter
also includes a notification function that
allows customers to forward events to HP or
third-party reporting or management tools such
as HP Storage Essentials and IBM Tivoli.
SLA compliance validation
One of the biggest challenges facing IT
staff today is validating how current backup
strategies are meeting organizational
goals. Data Protector Reporter features
35 out-of-the-box reports including SLA and
performance reporting.
Data Protector Reporter SLA summary
reports (figure 2) include a graphical report
to provide successful, partially successful,
and failed clients; a tabular view to identify
the device, number of successful sessions,
failed sessions, partial sessions, and the total

amount of performed sessions. The optional

licensed module also provides enhanced,
powerful, and customized ad hoc query and
analysis reporting.
Collectively these reports help customers
optimize operations to meet SLA, enhance
capacity and performance to improve cost,
plan for growth, and track compliance
and SLAs.
HP Data Protector Reporter:

35 out-of-the-box reports
Backup client reporting
SLA compliance validation
Capacity planning
Performance
Forecasting
Customized reports

Figure 1: Backup topology visualization

IT staff can easily navigate the topology and access information on each device such as backup client
status, cell managers, media managers, library, and tape drive

Scalable enterprise reporting

Data Protector Reporter features a powerful
reporting engine that drives global, multisite
backup and restore analysis, and enables IT
staff to reduce the risk of data loss by easily
identifying and troubleshooting issues such
as failed backup clients, performance
issues, and drive and media utilization.
The easy-to-use console provides a central
dashboard and a topographical view of
your backup environment across distributed
geographies. It allows members of IT staff to
view their infrastructure from enterprise to site
leveldown to individual clients in the farthest
remote office. IT staff can quickly and easily
view backup client status, cell managers,

Product demo
Watch a tour of Data Protector Reporter and learn
how to generate three popular reports.
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Figure 2: Backup compliance report

This compliance report depicts session status for the time as specified by the backup administrator.

Advanced reporting in virtual environments

In virtual environments, advanced reporting
functionality can be critical due to the
increased need for capacity planning,
management, and analysis. Ad hoc
deployment of applications and operating
systems associated with virtual machines
(VMs) often results in inefficient use of the
physical resources that underpin the virtual
environment, including storage systems.
Data Protector Reporter advanced reporting
functionality in virtual environments
helps diagnose and troubleshoot
potential backup and restore issues,
as well as maximize physical resources.
Capacity planning reports help identify
backup capacity at various levels from
backup size to media utilization, media pool
utilization, to tape drive and library capacity
reporting. It identifies the clients consuming
most of the backup resources, what media
can be reclaimed based on retention levels
and what can be reused for backups. This
simplifies management, reduces risk, and
saves resources.

HP Data Protector Reporter

features
Data Protector Reporter provides a single
view to manage your data protector
environment and offers six core utilities
including the Element Manager, Backup
Manager, Policy Manager, Event Manager,
System Manager, and Reporter.
Element Manager
Element Manager can help refine and
navigate the elements in the system. It allows
search by name, partial letters, address,
or enables the creation of groups and
naming conventions pertaining to these
specific groups.
Backup Manager
Backup Manager provides you with
comprehensive reporting on backup
resources, and provides a easy-to-read
dashboard with an immediate view of
your backup environment.

Policy Manager
Policy Manager automates the response to
storage configuration and capacity as well
as performance issues. It provides a wide
range of templates including utilizations,
storage system, switch and tape, and
library templates as well as performance,
infrastructure, and backup policies. From the
Policy Manager IT staff can select a device
and choose either a preconfigured policy
from the list of standard templates, add a
new policy template, and then select the
policy properties.
Event Manager
Event Manager keeps you informed of what
is happening with your managed elements.
Its filter and report format allows you to
easily view, clear, and sort the events you
are interested in.
System Manager
System Manager provides a comprehensive
view of the storage network topology. It
provides element dependency, capacity
and performance management capabilities
illustrating whats connected to which device
within the network and how its configured.
Data Protector Reporter reporting tool
Data Protector Reporter includes 35
out-of-the-box reports that are categorized
by backup clients, capacity planning,
hyperlink, performance, product analysis,
and SLA reports. An optional module
is available that provides customized
reporting capabilities.

Data Protector Reporter

components
Data Protector Reporters consists of three
key components that collect, store, and
report on enterprise devices and data within
a Data Protector environment.

Customer stories
Read how Iskratel Group uses Data Protector
snapshots to meet stringent application SLAs.
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The additional Viewing Backup Manager

provides a topographical view of the Data
Protector environment, including every
device connected from the Data Protector
cell manager down to tape libraries and
tape drives. Additionally, it provides a view
of successful and failed sessions, details of
the session, as well as the policy associated
to the session, the schedule of the session,
and any messages that were driven from the
failed session.

Connector: Collects the information from a

single or multiple cell managers on a periodic
basis and stores it in the data mine. Data
Protector utilizes the Cell Request Server (CRS)
service (connector) and agentless discovery
to discover the backup servers and devices
connected to the Data Protector Cell Manager.

Figure 3: Data Protector Reporter dashboard

Provides an immediate view of your backup environment, including SLAs, backup volume, and the
largest recent backup sessions, as well as a summary of failed, partial, and successful sessions.

Data Protector Reporter management

server, providing out-of-the box and highly
customizable reports to improve backup
environments and enable customer to
perform SLA and compliance reporting,
capacity planning, and operational analysis
reporting. Some of these reports give you
enterprise views of your hosts, storage
systems, and backup environment. While
others give you an at-a-glance analysis
based on assets and compliance.

Out-of-the box reports

Media availability
Media trendmedia summary
Media used
Most frequently failing clients
Session queue time
SLA summary
Database: Uses an Oracle relational
database as its underlying storage
repository and contains all the information
collected from the cell managers from
remote locations.

Reporting Engine: The core of Data Protector

Reporter, the reporting engine provides
reports using data collected by the

Figure 4:
HP Data Protector Reporter
capacity planning report

Client backup state

CPU and memory utilization of backup client
Host volumes not backed up
Hosts not part of backup specification
Policies and schedules for hosts and
applications
Backup SLA summary
Backup volume
Capacity dashboard
Client schedule summary
Clients status
Clients usage
Clients with consecutive failed sessions
Disabled policies
Disk drive throughput
Disk drive utilization
Effective SLA
Failed clients with error codes
Media summary by pool
Media utilization dashboard
Non-executed sessions
Session details
SLA summary by client
Top five clients based on backup volume
Backup session details
Client session details
Error session details

Navigating virtual server protection

Learn more about protecting virtual servers across
applications and storage.
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Backup volume growth forecast

Client performance forecast
Library performance forecast
Library utilization forecast
SLA forecast

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