{"id":7150,"date":"2018-10-11T03:31:53","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T17:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/?p=7150"},"modified":"2018-10-11T03:31:53","modified_gmt":"2018-10-10T17:31:53","slug":"data-protection-central-18-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2018\/10\/11\/data-protection-central-18-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Data Protection Central 18.1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the huge round of updates in June\/July, one of the products you should be using more frequently, Data Protection Central (DPC), also got a new version, with tighter integration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/01-DPC-18.1-Login.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7151\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/01-DPC-18.1-Login.png\" alt=\"01 DPC 18.1 Login\" width=\"532\" height=\"570\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/01-DPC-18.1-Login.png 532w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/01-DPC-18.1-Login-280x300.png 280w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/01-DPC-18.1-Login-187x200.png 187w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 532px) 100vw, 532px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>DPC 18.1 continues the move towards a crisp, clean HTML5 interface across the product set, something you&#8217;ll continue to see more of. Once you&#8217;ve logged in, you&#8217;ll get your dashboard views \u2013 in my case because I&#8217;m running it in a lab environment, there&#8217;s a few failures, so please don&#8217;t think I&#8217;ve been neglecting my backup environment:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7152\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7152\" style=\"width: 1558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/02-DPC-18.1-Detailed-Dashboard.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7152\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/02-DPC-18.1-Detailed-Dashboard.png\" alt=\"02 DPC 18.1 Detailed Dashboard\" width=\"1558\" height=\"780\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/02-DPC-18.1-Detailed-Dashboard.png 1558w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/02-DPC-18.1-Detailed-Dashboard-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/02-DPC-18.1-Detailed-Dashboard-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/02-DPC-18.1-Detailed-Dashboard-1024x513.png 1024w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/02-DPC-18.1-Detailed-Dashboard-399x200.png 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1558px) 100vw, 1558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7152\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">02 DPC 18.1 Detailed Dashboard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sometimes it seems that half of what I do in a lab environment is to trigger a failure and\u00a0<em>see what happens<\/em>, so my backup success rates in the lab are a lot lower than customers would typically see in their environments. (Excellent replication though \u2013 I don&#8217;t test failures there very much.)<\/p>\n<p>DPC still has the same sorts of breakdown of information as before, with some slight enhancements to introduce newer features.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7153\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7153\" style=\"width: 1555px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/03-DPC-18.1-System-View.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7153\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/03-DPC-18.1-System-View.png\" alt=\"03 DPC 18.1 System View\" width=\"1555\" height=\"884\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/03-DPC-18.1-System-View.png 1555w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/03-DPC-18.1-System-View-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/03-DPC-18.1-System-View-768x437.png 768w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/03-DPC-18.1-System-View-1024x582.png 1024w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/03-DPC-18.1-System-View-352x200.png 352w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1555px) 100vw, 1555px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7153\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">03 DPC 18.1 System View<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Of course, in a lab environment I get alerts on a bunch of systems (in this case, one DD and one Avamar server) with health warnings \u2013 effectively, that they can&#8217;t email home. Which is fine in my lab.<\/p>\n<p>The element launcher has been redefined (it&#8217;s the 3 vertical dots next to a system), not only in appearance but also in terms of what it offers to launch \u2013 for instance:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7154\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7154\" style=\"width: 1558px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/04-DPC-18.1-Launch-Elements.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7154\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/04-DPC-18.1-Launch-Elements.png\" alt=\"04 DPC 18.1 Launch Elements\" width=\"1558\" height=\"554\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/04-DPC-18.1-Launch-Elements.png 1558w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/04-DPC-18.1-Launch-Elements-300x107.png 300w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/04-DPC-18.1-Launch-Elements-768x273.png 768w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/04-DPC-18.1-Launch-Elements-1024x364.png 1024w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/04-DPC-18.1-Launch-Elements-562x200.png 562w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1558px) 100vw, 1558px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7154\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">04 DPC 18.1 Launch Elements<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For an Avamar 18.1 server, it offers to push me across to the administrative interface generally, into restore, proxy deployment, policy management, etc. If I click restore, thanks to integrating SSO, I literally jump straight to the restore section of the Avamar 18.1 HTML5 interface:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7155\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7155\" style=\"width: 1548px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/05-DPC-18.1-Luanch-into-Avamar-Restore.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7155\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/05-DPC-18.1-Luanch-into-Avamar-Restore.png\" alt=\"05 DPC 18.1 Launch into Avamar Restore\" width=\"1548\" height=\"702\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/05-DPC-18.1-Luanch-into-Avamar-Restore.png 1548w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/05-DPC-18.1-Luanch-into-Avamar-Restore-300x136.png 300w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/05-DPC-18.1-Luanch-into-Avamar-Restore-768x348.png 768w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/05-DPC-18.1-Luanch-into-Avamar-Restore-1024x464.png 1024w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/05-DPC-18.1-Luanch-into-Avamar-Restore-441x200.png 441w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1548px) 100vw, 1548px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7155\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">05 DPC 18.1 Launch into Avamar Restore<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>By the way, how awesome is the new Avamar HTML5 interface? I&#8217;ll explore more of that in another blog article.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, DPC 18.1 can also do a SSO launch into NMC or the new NetWorker UI (currently for VMware, expanding):<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7156\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7156\" style=\"width: 1550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/06-Launch-NetWorker-UI.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7156\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/06-Launch-NetWorker-UI.png\" alt=\"06 Launch NetWorker UI\" width=\"1550\" height=\"572\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/06-Launch-NetWorker-UI.png 1550w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/06-Launch-NetWorker-UI-300x111.png 300w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/06-Launch-NetWorker-UI-768x283.png 768w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/06-Launch-NetWorker-UI-1024x378.png 1024w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/06-Launch-NetWorker-UI-542x200.png 542w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1550px) 100vw, 1550px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7156\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">06 Launch NetWorker UI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Clicking the &#8220;NetWorker UI&#8221; there takes you straight to the recovery option within the new 18.1 NetWorker HTML5 UI as well:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7157\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7157\" style=\"width: 1552px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/07-NetWorker-Restore-from-SSO.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7157\" src=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/07-NetWorker-Restore-from-SSO.png\" alt=\"07 NetWorker Restore from SSO\" width=\"1552\" height=\"776\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/07-NetWorker-Restore-from-SSO.png 1552w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/07-NetWorker-Restore-from-SSO-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/07-NetWorker-Restore-from-SSO-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/07-NetWorker-Restore-from-SSO-1024x512.png 1024w, https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/07-NetWorker-Restore-from-SSO-400x200.png 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1552px) 100vw, 1552px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7157\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">07 NetWorker Restore from SSO<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Don&#8217;t forget, DPC is free. You can download, deploy and go, and use it to keep an eye on your Data Domain systems, Avamar 7.5+ and NetWorker 9.2+ systems. It&#8217;s product support page (where you can get access to the manuals and deployment software) <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/support.emc.com\/products\/44376?siteLocale=en_US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">is here<\/a><\/strong><\/span>. What&#8217;s more, if you&#8217;ve got Data Protection Advisor (DPA) or Data Protection Search, DPC can be used to integrate into those.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve seen any presentations about the Integrated Data Protection Appliance family (IDPA) from Dell EMC, you&#8217;ll probably recognise DPC as one of the central management components of IDPA, so the great thing about getting familiar with IDPA is that it doesn&#8217;t just prepare you for the HTML5 future of managing NetWorker and Avamar, you also get to see a glimpse of working with converged and hyperconverged backup appliances.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure you check it out \u2013 DPC is designed to let you get access to the information you need to monitor and manage your data protection environment faster and more conveniently, and I&#8217;d certainly recommend it any day of the week over trawling through backup emails each morning in terms of giving you an instant view of how your environment has worked overnight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the huge round of updates in June\/July, one of the products you should be using more frequently, Data Protection&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1133],"tags":[134,275,1447,1426,1446,1249],"class_list":["post-7150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-architecture","category-best-practice","tag-avamar","tag-data-domain","tag-data-protection-advisor","tag-data-protection-central","tag-data-protection-search","tag-networker"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/01-DPC-18.1-Login.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKpIN-1Rk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7150"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7158,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7150\/revisions\/7158"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}