Managing DPM 2007 in Large Enterprise

Microsoft has a new webcast available on managing DPM in an enterprise environment. This webcast highlights the options and tools available for managing a large number of DPM servers.

Command-line control via Powershell

• All tasks available in the GUI can also be done by Powershell;
• Additionally you can make changes to a large number of DPM server at ones;
• Find replication errors and start consistency checks;
• Modify disk allocationStart Tape inventory.

Scripting within DPM

• This can be used to perform Pre and post backup jobs;
• Useful if you need to dump a database before starting the backup.

Monitoring via Operations Manager

• With the available management pack from Microsoft you can monitor multiple DPM servers from a single interface.

Bocase Centralized manager for DPM.

• This is a third party tool for managing a large number of DPM servers;
• Provides web interface to multiple DPM servers from a single pane of glass;
• Adds role based access for DPM;
• Monitor Storage pools and tape libraries.

Link to webcast: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032412447&culture=en-US