Daily monitoring checklist
To ensure that you are completing the daily monitoring tasks for your IBM Spectrum Protect™ solution, review the daily monitoring checklist.
Complete the daily monitoring tasks from the Operations Center
Overview page. You can access the Overview page by opening the Operations Center and clicking Overviews.
The following figure shows the location for completing each task.
Tip: To run administrative commands for advanced monitoring
tasks, use the Operations Center command builder. The command
builder provides a type-ahead function to guide you as you enter commands. To open the command
builder, go to the Operations Center
Overview page. On the menu bar, hover over the settings icon and click Command Builder.
The following table lists the daily monitoring tasks and provides instructions for completing each task.
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Determine whether clients are at risk of being unprotected due to failed or missed backup operations. | To verify whether clients are at risk, in the Clients area, look for an At risk notification. To view details, click the Clients area. If you installed the client management service on a backup-archive client, you can view and analyze the client error and schedule logs by completing the following steps:
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For clients that do not have the client management service installed, access the client system to review the client error logs. |
Determine whether client-related or server-related errors require attention. | To determine the severity of any reported alerts, in the Alerts area, hover over the columns. | To view additional information about alerts, complete the following steps:
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Determine whether servers that are managed by the Operations Center are available to provide data protection services to clients. |
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Tip: If you detect an issue that is related to server properties, update the server properties:
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Determine whether sufficient space is available for the server inventory, which consists of the server database, active log, and archive log. |
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You can also look for related alerts on the Alerts page. For additional instructions about troubleshooting, see Resolving server problems. |
Verify server database backup operations. | To determine when a server was most recently backed up, complete the following steps:
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To obtain more detailed information about backup operations, complete the following steps:
If a database was not backed up recently (for example, in the last 24 hours), you can start a backup operation:
To determine whether the server database is configured for automatic backup operations, complete the following steps:
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Monitor other server maintenance tasks. Server maintenance tasks can include running administrative command schedules, maintenance scripts, and related commands. | To search for information about processes that failed because of server issues, complete the following steps:
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For more information about monitoring processes and resolving issues, see the Operations Center online help. |
Verify that the amount of data that was recently sent to and from servers is within the expected range. |
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Verify that storage pools are available to back up client data. |
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To view the storage-pool capacity that was used over the past two weeks, select a row in the Storage Pools table and click Details. |
Verify that storage devices are available for backup operations. | In the Storage & Data Availability area, in the Volumes section, under the capacity bars, review the status that is reported next to Devices. If a Critical or Warning status is displayed for any device, investigate the issue. To view details, click Devices. | Disk devices might have a critical or warning status for the following reasons:
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