Use the monitoring functions within Data Manager to run regularly scheduled or ad-hoc data collection jobs. These jobs gather statistics about your storage assets and their usage within your enterprise. The following lists the different kinds of data collection jobs that you can run and what they do:
Availability Monitoring - Pings. Use ping jobs to collect information about the availability of the storage assets in your enterprise.
Groups. Create groups that represent a set of objects that you define, such as computers, users, filesystems, etc. to reuse within the different jobs that you run. For example, if you want to scan all of the computers in your Payroll department, create a computer group named Payroll and populate that group with the individual computers from the Payroll department. Then, whenever you want to collect information about those computers, you can simply select the computer group named Payroll when defining a monitoring job. As computers are added or removed from the Payroll department, you can simply update the Payroll computer group to reflect those changes.
Asset Collection - Probe Jobs. Define probe jobs in the Aperi Storage Manager > Monitoring node. Use probes to collect statistics on the storage assets in your enterprise, such as computers, disk controllers, hard disks, clusters, fabrics, storage subsystems, LUNs, tape libraries, file systems, etc. The results of probe jobs are stored in the repository and are used to supply the data necessary for generating a number of reports.