ABARS/Assist – An online monitoring toolkit for comprehensive protection management assistance

Organizations operating an aggregate environment often struggle with centralizing the control of their ABARS software, especially the incremental and selective data restoration that eliminates redundant backups and streamlines the disaster recovery process.

As a component of DR/DVI, ABARS/Assist is a comprehensive toolkit that augments the existing power of your aggregate environment, ABARS/Assist provides online tracking and reporting for additional monitoring capabilities and decision-making support from a global perspective. Online monitoring includes:

• ABARS monitoring that provides a simple to use ISPF interface to monitor the status of all aggregates running within your enterprise. Online capabilities link with backup indexes to present all backup information.
• Threshold monitoring that quickly identifies any aggregate that runs too long or is backing up too much data. Other utilities assist personnel with the task of evenly splitting aggregates into easier controlled subsets.
• Centralized monitoring that links backup history to existing inclusion and instruction datasets. The capability to issue aggregate verification and submission is also provided. 

ABARS/Assist features rich utilities that enhance the power of your ABARS system by providing innovative capabilities that include:

• ABARS Verification – Evaluates and submits aggregates to DFHSM. Automatic aggregate list correction capability eliminates the possibility of submitting aggregates that would otherwise immediately fail.
• ABARS Log Scanning – Tracks the results of aggregate backups and restores. A centralized index of all ABARS backup files is kept to for reporting purposes.
• ABARS Selective Recovery – Provides flexibility at the hot site, as well as your local site and greatly enhances on-demand file recovery.