Introduction

This chapter is designed to provide you with the skills and techniques for dealing with the post-deployment monitoring and management tasks of your Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager (DPM) server. After reading this chapter, you will have the knowledge to carry out common DPM monitoring and management activities, such as monitoring DPM with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), monitoring DPM using native tooling, using the DPM Central Console, configuring and using role-based access control, and many more tasks.

To follow the recipes in this chapter, you need to have successfully installed Microsoft SCOM within your environment. For more information on how to deploy SCOM, please refer to the following article: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/system-center/scom/deploy-overview.