Backup Operations Dashboard on Teams Channel

Backup administrators and data protection owners have several systems to monitor and manage, and it is challenging to look at several consoles! Wouldn’t it be nice if they receive backup summary for the last day or so on a Microsoft’s Teams channel like the following?

PowerProtect Data Manager (PPDM) is a modern data protection software to protect VMs, DBs, Physical, NAS, Kubernetes and Cloud workloads. It has an easy to use intuitive UI and powerful REST API for customers who wish to manage centrally or automate some of the repeated tasks using REST API.

We have developed a script which utilises PPDM’s powerful REST API to gather backup status and several other stats and post that to Teams channel automatically on a daily basis. This will help customers to get a quick snapshot of last day’s backup status.

Secondly, this script will pull more information about the backup environment including assets, capacity, jobs and performance and upload the excel file to a central location and provides a link in the Teams Channel (Download Full Report on the above screen). This report can be used for optimising backup operations.

Lastly, customers can use this script to customise and automate many other reports or tasks based on REST API functionality. We are planning to create series of automation use cases for PPDM based on REST API using Python, Ansible and ServiceNOW - comeback here for more exciting content.

You can find the code for this script at GitHub:  https://github.com/cermegno/ppdm-report

You can watch video here for more details