Veritas NetBackup™ OpsCenter Administrator's Guide

About compliance reporting

OpsCenter Analytics helps organizations evaluate their compliance with internal and external business standards by providing accurate and customizable reports. By using internal compliance reports, you can measure system performance against a service level agreement (SLA). You can then use the results to optimize data protection management. Reports such as history or trend analysis ensure your compliance with the SLA. By using these reports, you can track the use of backup resources and identify the risks involved. For example, you can generate a report that anticipates a shortfall of resources in the future based on the current backup trend. This report is then used to determine the time that is required to purchase new tape drives, primary servers, or media servers.

External compliance reports help you follow the policies that are laid down by various federal regulations. Such policies include the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

In addition to tracking the backup information, OpsCenter reports ensure recovery of key information assets. The reports can help you ensure that the data recovery meets the recovery-time and recovery-point objectives.

OpsCenter can generate reports that are filtered by views. A view shows a set of enterprise assets (hosts or file systems) organized in logical groups. For example, you can create views to display assets according to their locations in the organization, the line of business they represent, or the applications that are installed. OpsCenter can generate reports according to views created. These reports help you identify locations or departments containing assets with critical data. These reports are then used in resource planning.