Performing retention analytics on IBM Storage Protect archive data

Use IBM Spectrum® Discover to perform retention analytics on archive data managed by IBM Storage Protect.

Before you begin

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About this task

IBM Spectrum Discover feature is leveraged to perform search, analytics, and reporting on the retention period for archive data managed by the IBM Storage Protect.

The existing IBM Storage Protect data connection and scan function in the IBM Spectrum Discover is enhanced to obtain the additional retention information from the IBM Storage Protect servers for the archive data.

Grouping expiration values to tag values

You can group the expiration values and run SQL queries to track the retention time period for the archive data managed by IBM Storage Protect. The custom tags are applied by AUTOTAG policies that look for all the data that is about to expire by a certain time period. The tagged policies can be scheduled to run periodically. After you apply AUTOTAG policies, the IBM Spectrum Discover GUI and REST APIs can be used to search, discover, and perform analytics on the data that is going to expire during the various time periods.

Perform the following steps to apply retention analytics on the IBM Storage Protect archive data.

Procedure

  1. Enable retention analytics feature. For more information, see, Enabling the retention analytics feature.
  2. Add IBM Storage Protect data source and initiating a scan. For more information, see Adding IBM Storage Protect data source and initiating scan.
  3. Search the expiry time. For more information, see Searching expiry time.