Catalogic DPX: Dashboard Reporting with Microsoft Power BI
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Catalogic DPX offers a customizable reporting tool using Microsoft Power BI to provide insights into backup job statuses, performance, and media utilization. The dashboard consolidates critical data, allowing users to highlight issues like failed jobs and long-running backups. Additionally, it includes pre-packaged reports and a Gold Support Monitoring Service for proactive environment management and optimization.
Catalogic DPX: Dashboard Reporting with Microsoft Power BI
- 1. DATA SHEET Easy. Customizable. Powerful. Catalogic DPX: Dashboard Reporting with Microsoft Power BI Dashboard Reporting for Catalogic DPX is an easy to use, fully customizable reporting tool that lets you quickly see the overall status of your DPX environment, while also offering drill-down into details. Microsoft Power BI provides the end- user interface to DPX data collected by the custom Catalogic utility. The result is a detailed and insightful view of your DPX enterprise that provides at-a-glance information about job status, job performance, media utilization, helps identify problem areas and more.
- 2. CATALOGIC SOFTWARE 2 of 5 DATA SHEET The Dashboard View At the center of the Dashboard Reporting tool is the Dashboard view. This is a central area where key information is bubbled up to the user. The displayed fields can be customized so that you see the data that is most important for your organization. A common use of the Dashboard is to highlight information that requires a quick response. For example, you may choose to display failed jobs so they can be quickly acted upon. Important system warnings can be bubbled up. Even jobs that show a significant data change rate can be highlighted. Other helpful statistics can be displaying backup jobs by time consumed (to help identify unusually long-running jobs) and total backup data moved. However you choose to configure your Dashboard, it provides an easy, at-a-glance view of your most important DPX data. This sample Dashboard Reporting view highlights Job Status and Important Warnings along the top. In this case, there are no running jobs or important warnings received during the reporting period. The middle rows show Job statistics. The bottom row alerts the operator to any jobs with a Significant Data Change Rate, which could identify an issue. And it also shows Media status information.
- 3. CATALOGIC SOFTWARE 3 of 5 DATA SHEET Additional Reporting Samples DPX Dashboard Reporting is fully configurable. However, it comes pre-packaged with a set of helpful reports that you can use immediately. Several of these reports are shown below. This is not a comprehensive list, but only a sampling. Aggregate Data Protected This report provides a pie-chart breakdown of which backup types have been protecting the most data over the past 30 days (all time periods are configurable). Each backup data type is presented as a slice of the pie, and total data moved is shown along with the percentage of the total. Backup types are color-coded at the bottom of the report. By clicking on a particular data type, the pie focus will change. Job History Report This report provides a view into DPX job history, listed per job. You can tell at a glance which jobs may be having problems. In the example to the right, it’s very clear that one job has been failing consistently, and a few others have failed periodically. Most jobs have been running without any failures, which lets you know that the majority of your DPX enterprise has been operating smoothly. Each line in the report has a drill down capability to see more specific, such as exactly which jobs failed during the reported time period.
- 4. CATALOGIC SOFTWARE 4 of 5 DATA SHEET Per Server Data/Performance Reports The Per Server reports let you focus on what’s happening with specific systems. Instead of a job-based view, which may combine multiple server backups into one, the Server reports list both aggregate data (total data moved per server over time) and average performance (average data transfer rate in MB per second). The data is also broken out by backup type (e.g. NDMP, SnapVault, etc.) and color-coded. The Per Server report lets you understand which servers are moving the most data. Highlighting a specific server on one graph will highlight the same server on the subsequent graph, easily focusing on the desired information. Solution Components Catalogic Reporting has several components. To start with, it uses the Stages log analysis tool. This is tool provided by Catalogic that pulls together collected information into a folder structure in a form of several CSV files. Then, the Microsoft Business Intelligence Power BI tool is used to parse CSV files and convert the data into easily readable charts and graphs. Catalogic provides scripts and templates that can be used to obtain several pre-defined reports, as shown in this document. Users can also create their own customized reports using Power BI. By default, the Stages tool keeps logs for 30 days, and the reports reflect this time period. This is adjustable, and users can change data retention times to be longer or briefer. Microsoft Power BI is available in both a free downloadable version and a licensed version that provides more features. The Stages tool is found on the Catalogic MySupport Portal.
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