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July 11th, 2013 13:00
Trouble getting started with new DPA 6
Can anyone suggest a few generic "opening moves" for a newly installed DPA 6?
The install was smooth, the default data collector agents are working, and we've discovered our Avamars and Data Domains.
Are there some general things we should do from the start to get the menus and navigators and groups to work? It seems we can run some basic reports, but it seems they need to be re-written from scratch every time.
Should we be making a copy of the default "Configuration" group in its entirety?
Or similarly, a copy of the whole default "Navigation Menu"?
Right now, there's only one user, me, so do I need to build some sort of user infrastructure to be able to re-run preconfigured reports without having to write them over every time?
What do other Customers do to set their initial configurations up?
Anyone with any suggestions would be helpful.
Thanks in advance!
Marty
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July 17th, 2013 19:00
Hi Marty,
What do you mean by "having to write them over every time" when talking about the reports?
By default, once you have installed DPA and configured it to collect data, you should be able to immediately run any of the hundreds of built-in reports with just a few clicks. Once you have run a report, you can click on SCHEDULE REPORT on the left hand side and set the report to be emailed to you daily or weekly (or at whatever interval you want).
There should not be any need to make a copy of the Configuration group or the Navigation menu (unless you want to customize the menu).
Let me know what specific issues you are having and I will try and help.
Regards,
Gareth
EMC DPA
admingineerchitact
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July 19th, 2013 08:00
Thanks for the reply.
We've been trying a lot of things to get a particular report to run. In 5.8, it was a scheduled control panel using a summary table with child objects selected. In 6.0, the summary table is now a summary report, and the child objects have a "known problem" with a scheduled emailed report.
Copying the child objects to their own group, and converting the summary table to a summary report, and applying a hot fix for the known email problem has left me in a mess with zero values in the report now instead of the summary count.
I've run the report several times while troubleshooting, and it shows up in the Report Jobs > Active Reports table, but I can't seem to run it again without starting over and selecting all the checkboxes and schedule again. Each time a new entry appears in the Active Reports tabe.
I'm at the point where I'm about to uninstall and reinstall to get rid of all the trial and error stuff, and get rid of the patch, and see if I can get the summary report to work without all the hard work.
Then, its off to build the rest of the control panel. Wish me luck...
Is my approach wrong? Is there something easy I've missed? If you have any tips to make this easy, I'd like to give 'em a try.
admingineerchitact
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July 29th, 2013 06:00
It looks like I've been able to get a custom control panel built with the 2 reports we need in it. Now the challenge is to either run it, or schedule it so it'll run when we want. The old buttons to just simply scheule a report or a control panel from 5.8 just simply aren't there any more.
If anyone has any tips it would be appreciated...
Thanks in advance,
Marty