PowerProtect Data Manager: REST API - Roll up Reporting
Roll up reporting is simply aggerating , or rolling up existing data into a summarized report. I was recently approached with an Avamar report that rolled up, or summarized the total number of backups over a given period by client.
The results of roll up reporting can be much more digestible to an audience that cares less about the details and more about the overarching numbers.
An example of this is the activity status of a protection job. An activity status can be:
Say you wanted to see a single line for an asset, over a given window, with the total count for each activity status vs looking at an individual line item each activity status... you guessed it... you want to see a roll up report.
The roll up report can be built from the same data set as the detailed report we are just aggerating the data by first selecting a unique set of asset ids then querying out data set again for the backups that fall within each activity status and adding that line to the report.
A concrete example of a roll up report can be found out on github in the PowerProtect Data Manager REST API Report Pack repo.
The report you're looking for is:
dm-activities-summary
And with that we'll close this one out. Have a great week!