What to do next
With the data provided, you can decide what action is needed
to maintain the health of a client.
For example, if the Storage view
indicates that all clients in the accounting group are using more
than 90% of their allocated storage space, you can do several things.
- Define alert conditions for high space usage.
- If you did not yet define alert conditions for high space usage,
you can define those conditions. This time you discovered the current
high space-usage situation by browsing the storage data, but next
time you want to alert the right people sooner. You can define conditions
to alert operators when space usage reaches 80%, and another set of
conditions to alert operators when space usage reaches 90%.
- Gather more information about what is causing the high space usage.
- Reconsider the data-protection needs of the end users. Verify
that the group configuration matches the data-protection needs. Consider
whether appropriate file types are being protected, and if the clients
are saving the appropriate number of versions of each file. You can
check activity logs of clients and even view the backup copies on
the remote storage locations.
If you noticed a problem with only
a single client, you can check the current configuration file of that
client to confirm that the end user did not modify some data-protection
settings for the client.
- Modify the data-protection configuration of the group.
- Perhaps you decide that the clients in the accounting group require
more storage space than is allocated in their current configuration.
You can modify the group configuration in the Groups Configuration task.
The new configuration is automatically sent to all clients in the
accounting group.