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View protection health on the Backup and Recovery Dashboard

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Monitor the health of your workloads to identify protection issues and respond to alerts. View the status of backups and restores, and review the System, Protection, Job, and Restore summaries on the NetApp Backup and Recovery Dashboard.

Required NetApp Console role
Storage viewer, Backup and Recovery super admin, Backup and Recovery backup admin, Backup and Recovery restore admin, Backup and Recovery clone admin, or Backup and Recovery viewer role. If you are protecting data stored on a Cloud Volumes ONTAP cluster, the Cloud Volumes ONTAP Admin role is also required. Learn about Backup and Recovery roles and privileges. Learn about NetApp Console access roles for all services.

Steps

  1. From the NetApp Console menu, select Protection > Backup and Recovery.

  2. Select a workload tile (for example, Microsoft SQL Server).

  3. From the Backup and Recovery menu, select Dashboard.

    You can review the following types of information:

    • Number of hosts or VMs discovered

    • Number of Kubernetes clusters discovered

    • Number of backup targets on object storage

    • Number of vCenters

    • Number of storage clusters in ONTAP

View the Protection summary

Review the following information in the Protection summary:

  • The total number of protected and unprotected databases, VMs, and datastores.

    Tip A protected database is one that has a backup policy assigned. An unprotected database is one that doesn't have a backup policy assigned to it.

  • The number of backups that were successful, have a warning, or have failed.

  • The total capacity discovered by the backup service and the capacity that is protected versus unprotected. Hover over the "i" icon to see the details.

View the Job summary

Review the total number of jobs that are completed, running, or failed in the Job summary.

Steps

  1. For each job distribution, change the filter to show the summary of failed, running, and completed jobs based on the number of days, for example, the last 30 days, last 7 days, last 24 hours, or the last year.

  2. View details of the failed, running, and completed jobs by selecting View job monitoring.

View the Restore summary

Review the following information in the Restore summary:

  • The total number of restore jobs performed

  • The total amount of capacity that has been restored

  • The number of restore jobs performed on local, secondary, and object storage. Hover over the chart to see the details.