Operations Center

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Operations Center basics
The Operations Center provides visibility to the key aspects of your IBM® Storage Protect environment, including clients, services (implemented and managed through policies), servers, storage pools, and storage devices.
Monitoring alerts
From the Operations Center, you can monitor alerts from hub or spoke servers.
Monitoring security notifications
The Operations Center examines backup data for clients for signs of ransomware infection. Respond to these notifications to determine if atypical backup statistics were the result of significant but known changes in the backup data, or the result of a ransomware attack.
Managing clients
You can manage the clients that are registered to hub or spoke servers.
Managing services
You can manage services for data protection and data retention. The data protection services for backing up, archiving, and migrating data are implemented and managed through policies. The data retention services are implemented and managed through retention rules and retention sets.
Managing servers
You can manage the IBM Storage Protect servers that are defined as hub or spoke servers.
Managing storage pools
You can view status, capacity, and configuration information for the storage pools that are defined to hub or spoke servers.
Managing storage rules
Storage rules define schedules and policies for moving or copying data between different types of storage. Tiering storage rules define policies for moving data to lower-cost storage based on the age of the data. Retention-copy storage rules define policies for copying retention set data from primary storage to tape or cloud object storage.
Managing cloud connections
Cloud connections define all the information that the server requires to access cloud storage for read and write operations.
Monitoring Open Snap Store Manager (OSSM)
If your organization installed and configured the OSSM component on the same system where you installed the IBM Storage Protect server, you can monitor OSSM instances from the IBM Storage Protect Operations Center.
Managing storage devices
You can view status and configuration information for the disk-based, tape-based, and cloud object storage devices that are defined to hub or spoke servers.
Replication
To protect client data that was backed up to IBM Storage Protect servers, and to prevent system downtime when a server is unresponsive, replicate the client data to secondary servers.