How to do it...

The following steps will guide you through how to use the default filters and build your own custom filters:

1. From the Start screen, select Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager. The DPM Administrator Console loads and the Monitoring task area is highlighted.
2. Select the Monitoring task area. Select one of the default filters in the Action pane to retrieve the associated data:

1. To create a custom filter, click the Create icon on the Ribbon bar. Enter a filter name, select the Time from option from the drop-down menu, and select a time from value.
2. Select the Time to option from the drop-down menu and select a time to value.
3. On the Jobs tab, select one or more of the job types and the job status—for example, completed, failed, in progress, or scheduled—and click on the Protection tab.

1. Select whether to group the jobs by protection group or by computer group and then select the protection group and members of that protection group that you want information displayed on. If you want DPM to filter external media, select External tape jobs.
2. Click on the Others tab, specify the Time elapsed in either minutes or hours, the Data transferred in MB, and clear or leave enabled the option for libraries, if you want to apply the filter here.
3. Click Preview to preview the filtered jobs or Save to save the custom filter. Click the Refresh icon on the Ribbon bar. In the Display pane, you will see the results of your custom query: