Reporting_CDP

CDP Reporting Overview

This section provides an introduction to the CDP reporting feature. This section contains the following subsections:

After reading the SonicWALL GMS CDP Reporting Overview section, you will understand the main steps to be taken in order to create and customize reports successfully.

For a general introduction to reporting, see the Dell SonicWALL GMS Reporting Overview.

CDP Reports Tab

The CDP tab gives you access to the Continuous Data Protection (CDP) Reports section of the SonicWALL GMS management interface. Reporting supports both graph and non-graph reports, and allows you to filter data according to what you wish to view. It supports multiple product-licensing models.

What is CDP Reporting?

Reports on SonicWALL Continuous Data Protection (CDP) appliances allows administrators to monitor online status and disk space usage, either globally within a network, or by appliance. CDP reporting also provides detailed backup reports for individual appliances.

The Filter Bar provides an intuitive, responsive interface for customizing the CDP report layout and configuring content filtering to focus on specific times and/or details. Hyperlinks allow access to additional reports data, by clicking on column entries to drill down to the desired detail view. By using these functions, you can:

How to View CDP Reports

To view the available types of reports for CDP, perform the following steps:

  1. Log into your SonicWALL GMS management console.
  2. Click the CDP tab.
  3. Click the Reports tab on the top of the screen.

The following types of reports are available:

Group Level Reports:

Unit Level Reports

Drilling down through the Group Level Capacity Summary report by appliance takes you to the Unit Level Summary Report. By drilling down through hypertext links in the Summary, you access the Detail-level reports.

Click Backup Activity > Backup Details to go directly to the Detail report.

For more information on how to navigate through the Reports, refer to Navigating Dell SonicWALL GMS Reporting.

Viewing the Capacity Summary Report

The Capacity report provides an overview of disk usage, either for multiple devices via the Global View, or by individual unit, broken down by appliance or agent. Clicking on an appliance link in the global summary will take you to a Summary report for the agents of that appliance.

To view the Capacity report:

  1. Click the CDP tab.
  2. Click the Reports tab on the top of the screen. By default, the global capacity report comes up.

    3. The report includes the used and free quotas of the capacity for each appliance, as well as what percentage of that capacity is free.





  3. To view the Capacity Summary for an individual unit, click on the unit in the TreeControl panel.

A detailed view of the agents and quotas for the unit comes up.





Click the agent name to add a filter and obtain a Detail view of backup information.

Viewing Unit Backup Activity

You can view backups for Top Agents and Top File Extensions for a system. These files are drillable. You can also Click Backup Details to go directly to a Detail report.

Viewing the Top Agents Report

The Top Agents report lists the name of the agent, backup size, size of the compressed disk file in KB, and policy. The agents are displayed on a pie chart.

To view the Top Agents report, perform the following steps:

  1. Click the CDP tab.
  2. Click the Reports tab on the top of the screen.
  3. Click on the entry for the desired SonicwALL appliance.
  4. Click on Backup Activity > Top Agents.




Drilling down takes you to the Detail level report, listing the backed up appliance and listing its backed up files and folders. The Detail report also provides status on whether the backup operation was successful. You can shortcut to an unfiltered version of the Detail report by clicking Backup Details.

Top File Extensions

The Top File Extensions report lists the extension, backup size, size of the compressed disk file in KB, and number of backed up files.

  1. Click the CDP tab.
  2. Click the Reports tab on the top of the screen.
  3. Click on the entry for the desired SonicWALL appliance.
  4. Click on Top File Extensions on the Reports tab.




Drilling down takes you to the Detail level report, listing the backed up appliance and its files and folders

Viewing the Detail View Report

SonicWALL GMS provides a shortcut to the Detail view of CDP reports. The Detail view includes: what appliances were backed up and when, whether the operation was successful, the agent for the appliance, and the file and folder names backed up, with respective sizes of both original files and folders and backed up files and folders.

To see the Detail view:

  1. Click the CDP tab.
  2. Click the Reports tab on the top of the screen.
  3. Click on the entry for the desired SonicwALL appliance.
  4. Click on Backup Details on the Reports tab.

A detail view, similar to what you might see in the Log Analyzer, comes up. The CDP detail view is not organized into graph and grid view sections like the Firewall and SRA views. However, by clicking on links, you can filter results.





If desired, the Detail view of backup activity can be saved. It will then appear under Custom Reports, and in the Manage Reports list.

For more information on Custom reports, refer to Custom Reports.

Viewing the User Backup Report

Viewing User Backup Reports takes you to the Detail view of the Backup report. The Detail view includes: what appliances were backed up and when, whether the operation was successful, the agent for the appliance, and the file and folder names backed up, with respective sizes of both original files and folders and backed up files and folders.

To see the Detail view:

  1. Click the CDP tab.
  2. Click the Reports tab on the top of the screen.
  3. Click on the entry for the desired SonicwALL appliance.
  4. Click on Backup > User Backups on the Reports tab.

You can save the User Backup Report as a Custom report, for later viewing. For more information on Custom reports, refer to the Custom Reports.

Viewing Uptime/Downtime

Timelines provide an overview of whether a device or group of devices are online. This can be useful in determining if a backup operation failed or did not take place, due to device unavailability. You can view the total uptime and downtime for a specific appliance, allowing you to determine when an appliance was online and percentage of time it was in service.

  1. Click the CDP tab.
  2. Click the Reports tab on the top of the screen.
  3. Click on the entry for the desired SonicwALL appliance.

Click Up/Down > Timeline to view a summary timeline of uptime/downtime for a specific device.