Dell PowerProtect Data Manager

Dell PowerProtect Data Manager

Ingest metrics, activities, and other logs from PowerProtect Data Manager.

Extension

Product information
Release notes

Overview

PowerProtect Data Manager is a data protection software designed to secure modern workloads including backups, dev/test re-use, protecting cloud native applications, centralized governance and control, and self-service backup and restore. This extension can be used to collect performance and health data about your PowerProtect Data Manager deployment as well as give you insights into activities, alerts, and audit logs.

Use cases

Monitor overall system health to identify issues that can affect performance or reliability
Monitor configuration changes
Extract Dynatrace problem events from PowerProtect alert or health issue records
Monitor the states of your storage systems

Details

Metrics

Review the list of feature sets to see which metrics are collected. Metrics are related to the overall system health and storage system statuses.

Log events

Many types of records from PowerProtect are ingested into Dynatrace in the form of log events. These log events can be manually reviewed as well as used in log event extraction and metric configurations. The following types of records can be ingested:

Activities

An activity represents a long running asynchronous execution in the system. It can represent a group of jobs, a single job, or a single task. These will have a 'record_type' attribute of 'activity'.

Audit logs

Audit log tracks configuration modification activity from users. These will have a 'record_type' attribute of 'audit_log'.

System health issues

An issue affecting the health of the PowerProtect system. These events can affect the overall system health score. These will have a 'record_type' attribute of 'system_health_issue'.

Alerts

Alerts enable you to track the performance of data protection operations in PowerProtect Data Manager so that you can determine whether there is compliance to service level objectives. These will have a 'record_type' attribute of 'alert'.

Log processing rules

One log processing rule is included that will extract and create a new column (vm.name) from log events for patterns of logs that include a virtual machine name in their content.

Compatibility information

This extension uses the PowerProtect Data Manager REST API.

Installation

Requirements

A PowerProtect instance with the PowerProtect Data Manager REST API reachable from ActiveGates
A user with the "User" or "readonly" role

Configuration

Find 'Dell PowerProtect Data Manager' in the in-product Extensions or Hub page and activate (if offline you can download the extension from this Hub page in the 'Versions' section and install as a custom extension).

Monitoring configurations

Once activated in your environment you can create monitoring configurations. Each monitoring configuration can have one PowerProtect instance.

First select the desired ActiveGate group that will run the monitoring configuration.

Host
Authentication
- Username & password (credential vault is supported)
Verify SSL (can be disabled if monitoring a local instance with a self-signed certificate)
Activities
- Collection interval (0 to disable)
- Collect failed job group activites
- Collect completed with warnings job group activites
Audit logs
- Collection interval (0 to disable)
System issues
- Collection interval (0 to disable)
Alerts
- Collection interval (0 to disable)
- Collect warning severity alerts (in addition to critical)
- Filter by time
  - If "Filter by time" is disabled, reporting will be based on the "acknowledgement" state of the alert within PowerProtect. So this will result in any unacknowledged alerts continuing to be reported (can be used to keep extracted problems open). If "Filter by time" is enabled we will only report alerts that occurred during that monitoring interval (based on the postedTime of the alert).
Log level

Licensing

There is no charge for obtaining the extension, only for the data (metrics & events) that the extension ingests. The details of license consumption will depend on which licensing model you are using. This will either be Dynatrace classic licensing or the Dynatrace Platform Subscription (DPS) model.

Metrics

License consumption is based on the number of metric data points ingested. The following formula will provide approximate annual data points ingested assuming all feature sets are enabled:

Calculation estimates yearly DDU usage:

(15 + <number_of_protection_engine_proxies>) * 525.6

Log records

The number of reported log records will be based on how many audit logs, activities, alerts, and system health issues occur.

Log management and analytics (powered by Grail)

License consumption is based on the size (in bytes) of data ingested & processed, retained, and queried so there is not a single formula to estimate the total consumption from this extension. Consult the log management and analytics documentation for details on the other dimensions that will effect license consumption.

Classic licensing

In the classic licensing model, log record ingestion will consume Davis Data Units (DDUs) at the rate of 100 DDUs per Gigabyte of log records ingested.

Log monitoring classic

In log monitoring classic, license consumption is based on the number of ingested log records.

Classic licensing

In the classic licensing model, log record ingestion will consume Davis Data Units (DDUs) at the rate of .0005 DDUs per ingested log record.

Multiply estimated ingested log records by .0005 to estimate DDU usage from log records.

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Extension content

Content typeNumber of items included

metric metadata

8

screen logs cards

1

log processing rule

1

dashboards

1

screen chart groups

3

screen layout

1

list screen layout

1

generic type

1

screen entities lists

1

Feature sets

Below is a complete list of the feature sets provided in this version. To ensure a good fit for your needs, individual feature sets can be activated and deactivated by your administrator during configuration.

Feature setsNumber of metrics included

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Availability	ppdm.availability	-	Percent
System health score	ppdm.system_health.score	-	Count
System health status	ppdm.system_health.status	-	State

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Storage system status count (fair)	ppdm.storage.summary.fair	-	Count
Storage system status count (good)	ppdm.storage.summary.good	-	Count
Storage system status count (poor)	ppdm.storage.summary.poor	-	Count
Storage system status count (total)	ppdm.storage.summary.total	-	Count

Metric name	Metric key	Description	Unit
Protection Engine Proxy Status	ppdm.protection_engine.proxy.status	-	State

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To have more information on how to install the downloaded package, please follow the instructions on this page.

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