Product dashboard

The IBM Spectrum® Protect Plus dashboard summarizes the health of your virtual environment in three sections: Jobs and Operations, Destinations, and Coverage.

Jobs and Operations

The Jobs and Operations section shows a summary of job activities for a selected time period. Select the time period from the drop-down list. The following information is shown in this section:

Currently Running

The Currently Running section shows the total number of jobs that are running and the percentage of central processor unit (CPU) usage in the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus virtual appliance. This percentage is refreshed every 10 seconds.

To view detailed information about running jobs, click View.

History

The History section shows the total number of jobs that were completed within the selected time period. This number does not include running jobs.

This section also shows the success rate for jobs over the selected time period. The success rate is calculated by using the following formula:

100 x Successful Jobs / Total Jobs = Success Rate

Completed jobs are shown by job status:

Successful: The number of jobs that were completed with no warnings or critical errors.
Failed: The number of jobs that failed with critical errors or that failed to be completed.
Warning: The number of jobs that were partially completed, skipped, or otherwise resulted in warnings.

To view detailed information job history information, click View.

Destinations

The Destination section shows a summary of the devices that are used for backup operations. The following information is shown in this section:

Capacity Summary: The Capacity Summary section shows the current usage and availability of the vSnap servers that are available to IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.; To view information about vSnap servers, click View.

Device Status: The Device Status section shows the total number of devices that are available for use.; The number of devices that are offline or otherwise unavailable is shown in the Inactive field.; The number of devices that are at capacity is shown in the Full field.

Data Reduction: The Data Reduction section shows data deduplication and data compression ratios.; The data deduplication ratio is the amount of data that is protected compared with the physical space that is required to store the data after duplicates are removed. This ratio represents space savings achieved in addition to the compression ratio. If deduplication is disabled, this ratio is 1.

Coverage

The Coverage section shows a summary of the resources that are inventoried by IBM Spectrum Protect Plus and the service level agreement (SLA) policies that are assigned to the resources. The following information is shown in this section:

Source Protection: The Source Protection section shows the total number of source resources, such as virtual machines and application servers, that are inventoried in the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus catalog. The number of protected and unprotected resources are shown.; This section also shows the ratio of resources that are protected in IBM Spectrum Protect Plus to the total resources, expressed as a percent.

Policies: The Policies section shows the total number of SLA policies with associated protection jobs.; This section also shows the three SLA policies that have the highest count assigned resources.; To view detailed information about all SLA policies, click View.