Customizing at-risk settings for clients

In the Operations Center, you can customize the settings that define which clients are at risk. This action can help you spot the at-risk indications for the most important clients.

About this task

By default, the at-risk settings that are specified on the General Settings page ( > Settings > General) apply to all clients that are managed by the Operations Center. In the Operations Center, a client has an at-risk indication if a problem occurred in one of the following situations:

• During the most recent scheduled backup of the client
• During a backup that started within a specified time interval

To reduce the number of false indications, take the following actions:

• For clients that do not require frequent backups, specify a longer time interval for the at-risk indication.
• Bypass clients that are no longer associated with regular backup schedules.

Tip: If you do not schedule backups, or if you use a backup scheduling application other than IBM® Storage Protect, only the following at-risk states are relevant:

• Data
• Policy

The following states do not apply:

• Failed
• Missed
• Skipped
• Warning

To customize the at-risk indication for one or more clients, complete the following steps:

1. On the Clients page, select the clients for which you want to change the at-risk settings.
2. Click Set At Risk, and choose either the Bypass or Custom at-risk modes.