Applies to: CommCell administrators
The Global Command Center offers a suite of centralized reporting features for multiple service CommCell environments designed to provide comprehensive insights into all of your data protection environments simultaneously. You can customize reports using filters, sorting options, and data visualization tools, such as charts.
These features enhance your ability to monitor, analyze, and manage data protection strategies effectively within the Global Command Center.
Use the following centralized reporting features across multiple service CommCells:
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Monitoring: Monitor your CommCell environments using automated reporting, which allows you to generate and email scheduled reports regularly.
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Compliance: Export report data by saving reports in various formats and integrating them with other platforms.
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Operational visibility: Configure alerts based on report data to stay informed about critical changes.
A variety of predefined reports are available by default, covering various aspects of data protection, such as backup and restore jobs, SLA compliance, storage utilization, and CommCell readiness. The following table lists some of the predefined reports.
| Report Name | Purpose/Use Case | Key Metrics or Insights Provided | Applicable Workloads (if relevant) |
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| Backup Summary Report | Displays information about all backup jobs completed for the entities that you specify in the time period that you specify. | Job status, jobs by agent, jobs by Hypervisor | All workloads |
| Restore Job Summary Report | Displays restore jobs that ran over the specified period. | Restore job status, jobs by agent | All workloads |
| SLA Report | Measures compliance with service level agreements. | Agent type, SLA percentage, protected servers, unprotected servers | Business-critical workloads |
| CommCell Check Readiness Report | Displays information about connection failures among entities in the service CommCell environments. | Category, name, and reason | CommCell infrastructure |
| Auxiliary Copy Fallen Behind Report | Identifies delays in auxiliary copy operations. | Copy lag time, job queue status, affected media | Auxiliary copy workloads |
| Office 365 Backup Health Summary | Monitors the backup health of Microsoft 365 applications. | Client Name, Associated Entities, Entities Backed-up, Entities Not Backed-up | Microsoft 365 workloads |
| VM Backup Health Summary | Displays virtual machine SLA information. | Active Jobs, Associated VMs, Company, CommCell | Virtual Machines |
| Audit Trail Report | Displays a list of operations performed by users in the CommCell environment over a specified time range. | ID, Severity Level, User, Time, Operation, Details | All workloads |
| Storage Utilization Report | Displays information about the space in a library, including total capacity, used space, and available free space. | Used vs. available capacity | Backup storage systems |
| Laptop Backup Health | Displays information about laptop backup health. | Total Laptops, Recently Installed,Laptops Without Owner, Not Backed Up, Excluded, Backed Up and Retired | Laptops |
| Filesystem Backup Health Report | Displays file system SLA information. | Total Servers, Backed-up, Not Backed-up, Excluded | Filesystem |
| Dynamics365 Backup Health | Backup Health Report for Dynamics 365 Clients | Associated Tables, Tables Backed-up,Tables Not Backed-up, Tables Never Backed-up, Tables Backed-up (at least once), Tables Recently Added | Dynamics 365 Clients |
| Aux Copy Job Details | Displays information about Auxiliary Copy jobs. Data Transferred and Data To Be Processed columns are populated for running jobs | Total application size, Total Data Written | Commcell |
Procedure
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From the Command Center navigation pane, click Reports.
The Reports page appears listing all the reports available by default.
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Click any report.