Monitor protected nodes

From the onQ Portal you can quickly identify the connection status, protection status, and backup status of protected nodes.

Monitoring is particularly useful if you’ve started a protected node or you recently upgraded a host.

To monitor the status of a protected node:

1.	Log on to the HA Appliance’s onQ Portal.

2.	Go to DASHBOARD tab > PROTECTED NODES page.

A list of all your protected nodes and their current status appears:

 

Connection Status	carat is green and points upward	Protected node is running and protection is turned on.
	carat is red and points downward	Protected node is not online. Either the protected node is down, or the onQ Service on the protected node is not running (see Restart the onQ Service).
		Appliance’s connection to protected node is secure.
		Appliance’s connection to protected node is unsecured. See Troubleshoot Connection Problems
Protected Node		Hostname of the protected node. Hostname is the same as the Windows hostname.
Type	PN	Protected node itself is running as opposed to the recovery node.
	RN	Recovery node, not the protected node is running, implying that the primary node has failed or has been stopped and its recovery node equivalent has been started.
Protection Disabled	no check mark	Protection is enabled on this node.
	check mark appears	Protection is disabled on this node.
RN Status	carat is green and points upward	Recovery Node image of the Protected Node is available and ready to run. The acronym BoD appears next to the icon if Auto RN Creation (see Modify recovery node creation policy) is set to disabled. Hover‑over help displays a record of recent events for the RN.
	carat is green and moves top to bottom	onQ is preparing the Recovery Node
	carat is red and points downward	No Recovery Node is available either because you just added the PN and onQ is backing up the PN for the first time, Protection is off, or you set the PN to Build on Demand (BoD) by disabling Auto RN Creation (see Modify recovery node creation policy). In the latter case, the acronym BoD appears next to the carat.
	hourglass on a yellow background	Internal processing is occurring. Typically this icon persists for one to two minutes before changing to red or green.
	carat is green, points upward, and accompanied by a red asterisk	The Recovery Node is not running the most recent snapshot. The RN is more than one snapshot behind the most recent snapshot in the Repository. Hover‑over text displays the snapshot that the RN is running. The red asterisk might appear in a normal backup cycle for a short period of time, after the new snapshot is created and before the update of the RN begins.
Backup Status	carat is green and points upward	Complete restorable backup exists in the repository. Hover-over text indicates Complete. The date and time of the most recent completed backup appear to the right.
	carat is green and moves left to right	Backup is in progress. Hover-over text indicates Running.
	carat is green and moves top to bottom	Transfer of the backup to the repository is in progress. Hover‑over text indicates Adding.
	carat is green, points upward, and accompanied by a red asterisk	A valid snapshot exists, but the last backup attempt resulted in an error or the snapshot wasn’t added to the repository.
	carat is red and points downward	Not a single copy of a backup snapshot exists.
	timestamp	Date and time of the most recent successful backup.
Next Scheduled Backup	timestamp	Date and time of the next scheduled backup.
Backup Transfer Margin Note:  First column represents PN backups on HA. Second column represents transfer of those backups to the DR.	solid green icon	Indicates how well PN backups and DR transfers are keeping up with the backup interval. Actual time taken was under 65% of the interval as calculated by averaging intervals from the previous 24 hours (for example, you have a backup interval of 1 hr and your backups completed within less than 39 minutes, on the average); this 24-hr time period automatically resets each time you restart protection. Hover‑over help displays: • policy information such as retention period and backup interval • PN’s oldest snapshot (in days) • backup transfer times for the last hour.
	solid yellow icon	Indicates how well PN backups and DR transfers are keeping up with the backup interval. Actual time taken was 66‑89% of the interval as calculated by averaging intervals from the previous 24 hours; this 24-hr time period automatically resets each time you restart protection. Hover‑over help displays: • policy information such as retention period and backup interval • PN’s oldest snapshot (in days) • backup transfer times for the last hour
	solid red icon	Indicates how well PN backups and DR transfers are keeping up with the backup interval. Actual time taken was 90% or more of the interval as calculated by averaging intervals from the previous 24 hours; this 24-hr time period automatically resets each time you restart protection. Hover‑over help displays: • policy information such as retention period and backup interval • PN’s oldest snapshot (in days) • backup transfer times for the last hour.
	white icon with question mark	Margin is not applicable because no backups have been performed in the last 24 hours. Also displays if protection is off or if backup or DR transfer has not been completed since you turned on protection.

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