Protection reports

IBM Spectrum Protect Plus provides protection reports that display the protection status of your resources, and help ensure that your data is protected through user-defined recovery point objective parameters.

Complete the following steps to view protection reports:

Ensure that the user permissions for this report type are correct. See Permission types.
Click Report from the navigation menu.
Expand Protection in the Report pane.

The following reports are available:

Protected VMs report: Run the Protected VMs report to view the protection status of your virtual machines. You can modify the report to show unprotected virtual machines and display the total number of virtual machines added to the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus inventory before backup jobs are started. Use the report options to filter by Hypervisor type and specific Hypervisors to display. To include unprotected virtual machines in the report, select Show Unprotected VMs. The Summary View displays an overview of your virtual machine protection status, including the number of unprotected and protected virtual machines and the managed capacity of the protected virtual machines. The managed capacity is the used capacity of a virtual machine. The Detail View provides further information about the protected and unprotected virtual machines, included names and location.

Protected Databases report: Run the Protected Databases report to view the protection status of your databases. You can modify this report to show unprotected databases, which will display the total number of databases added to the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus inventory before running backup jobs.
Use the report options to filter by database type and specific databases to display. To include unprotected databases in the report, select Show Unprotected Databases. To view databases that are protected through hypervisor-based backup jobs, select Show Databases Protected as part of Hypervisor Backup.; The Summary View displays an overview of your application server protection status, including the number of unprotected and protected databases, as well as the front end capacity of the protected databases. The front end capacity is the used capacity of a database. The Detail View provides further information about the protected and unprotected databases, included their names and location

VM Backup History report: Run the VM Backup History report to review the protection history of specific virtual machines. To run the report, at least one virtual machine must be specified in the VMs option. You can select multiple virtual machine names.; Use the report options to filter by failed or successful jobs and time of the last backup. The report can be further filtered by specific Service Level Agreement (SLA) policies. In Detail View, click the plus icon next to an associated job to view further job details, such as the reason why a job failed or the size of a successful backup.

Database Backup History report: Run the Database Backup History report to review the protection history of specific databases. To run the report, at least one database must be specified in the Databases option. You can select multiple databases.; Use the report options to filter by failed or successful jobs and time of the last backup. The report can be further filtered by specific SLA policies. In Detail View, click the plus icon next to an associated job to view further job details, such as the reason why a job failed or the size of a successful backup.

VM SLA Policy Compliance report

The VM SLA Policy Compliance report displays virtual machines in relation to recovery point objectives as defined in SLA policies. The report displays the following information:

Virtual machines in compliance
Virtual machines not in compliance
Virtual machines in which the last backup job session failed

Use the report options to filter by Hypervisor type and specific Hypervisors to display. The report can be further filtered by virtual machines that are in compliance or not in compliance with the defined RPO.

Database SLA RPO Compliance report

The Database SLA RPO Compliance report displays databases in relation to recovery point objectives as defined in SLA policies. The report displays the following information:

Databases in compliance
Databases not in compliance
Databases in which the last backup job session failed

Use the report options to filter by application type and specific application servers to display. The report can be further filtered by databases that are in compliance or not in compliance with the defined RPO, or by protection type, including data that was backed up to vSnap or by using replication.