HP Storage Essentials SRM 6.0 User Guide for Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition SRM Software (July 2008)

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16 Managing Backups
Depending on your license, the Backup Manager feature may not be available. See the List of
Features to determine if you have access to Backup Manager. The List of Features is accessible from
the Documentation Center (Help > Documentation Center in Storage Essentials). This feature is not
included with HP Storage Essentials Standard Edition, but it may be purchased as an optional
feature.
This chapter contains the following topics:
• About Backup Manager, page 571
• Viewing Sessions that are Running, page 574
• Determining if the Last Scheduled Backup was Successful, page 575
• About the User Interface, page 578
• About the Summary Backup Charts, page 587
• About the Tabs in the Topology Lower Pane, page 588
• Modifying Summary Backup Charts, page 592
• Viewing Charts for a Backup Manager Host, page 593
• Printing Summary Charts, page 593
About Backup Manager
The Backup Manager feature allows you to:
• Monitor the overall status of the backup process
• Visualize the backup configuration and recoverability of a file, directory, volume, or server
• View the status of the physical infrastructure supporting the backup process, backup application,
backup server, network, tape library, and media
• Provide information on reasons for backup failures and advisory information for configuring new
backup schedules
Backup Manager monitors the backup applications running on discovered hosts. To determine
which backup applications are supported, see the support matrix for your edition, which is
accessible from the Documentation Center.
The management server is able to detect the presence of the following after you obtain backup
details:
• Backup Application — A backup application, such as NetBackup or HP Data Protector, serving
as the master in a backup hierarchy. A backup application is responsible for managing other
media managers.
• Backup Manager Host — A managed host that is running the backup application. The IP
address of the backup manager host must be specified in Step 1 of discovery before the backup
application can be discovered.