Integration with IBM Spectrum Protect

You can monitor your IBM Spectrum Protect Plus environment from IBM Spectrum Protect Operations Center. For convenience, you can also access the Operations Center directly from IBM Spectrum Protect Plus.

Monitor IBM Spectrum Protect Plus from the Operations Center

The Operations Center includes a dashboard for IBM Spectrum Protect Plus that provides the following information:
  • A summary of job activities for a selected time period. You can view the percentages of backup, restore, and other jobs that succeeded and failed. From this summary information, you can go to more detailed information for each job type.
  • A summary of the capacity and availability of vSnap servers. You can view the total disk capacity that is available to the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server through all vSnap servers. You can also view the available capacity for each vSnap server.
  • A summary of service level agreement (SLA) policies that are defined on the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server. You can view the number of policies that have associated backup jobs. You can also view the percentage of resources that are protected by backup jobs, and the number of resources that are not protected. From this summary information, you can go to more detailed policy information.

To enable this feature, a system administrator must add the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus server to the Operations Center.

Access the Operations Center from the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus GUI

To access the Operations Center from IBM Spectrum Protect Plus, a system administrator must add the Operations Center URL on the Global Preferences page of the IBM Spectrum Protect Plus GUI.

You can then access the Operations Center from the IBM Spectrum Protect icon the operations center icon on the menu bar.