About OpsCenter Analytics functions
The licensed version of NetBackup OpsCenter is called OpsCenter Analytics.
OpsCenter Analytics can perform the following functions:
Monitor NetBackup and NetBackup Appliance setups.
Manage or administer NetBackup and NetBackup Appliance setups.
See About monitoring and managing NetBackup and NetBackup appliances.
Note that OpsCenter Analytics can only monitor and manage NetBackup or NetBackup Appliance. It no longer supports products like NetBackup PureDisk, Backup Exec, Deduplication Appliance and so on.
Generate alerts depending on the conditions that you have defined.
Create and customize views using OpsCenter View Builder.
Provide operational and business-level reporting on the following backup products:
NetBackup
NetBackup Appliance
Provide chargeback, custom, and custom SQL reports
OpsCenter Analytics displays customizable, multi-level views of backup resources and customizable reports for tracking service usage and expenditures. It also contains tools for defining cost metrics and chargeback formulas or handling alerts.
A wide range of audiences can benefit from the reporting capabilities and management capabilities of OpsCenter Analytics. The audiences include IT (Information Technology) managers, application owners, IT finance teams, external compliance auditors, legal teams, line-of-business managers, external customers, IT architects, and capacity planning teams.
The primary objectives of OpsCenter Analytics are as follows:
Help organizations assess their compliance with business standards by allowing them to accomplish the following:
Help organizations to establish the Service Level Agreements by reporting on them
Report to legal departments, auditors, IT managers, and administrators
Verify compliance with internal as well as external business-level regulations.
Identify risks in terms of shortfall of backup resources.
Assess the recovery of clients and applications.
Assist organizations in effective business planning by enabling them to do the following:
Estimate future backup requirements with the help of backup trend analysis.
Calculate the cost of data protection management and chargeback to customers and business units.