The Plans tab
With an Advanced license, you can manage protection plans and other plans by using the Plans tab.
Each section of the Plans tab contains all the plans of a specific type. The following sections are available:
- Protection
- Backup scanning
- Backup replication
- Validation
- Cleanup
- Conversion to VM
- VM replication
- Bootable media. This section displays protection plans that were created for machines booted from bootable media, and can only be applied to such machines.
In each section, you can create, edit, disable, enable, delete, start, and monitor the running of a plan.
Cloning and stopping are available only for protection plans. Unlike stopping a backup from the Devices tab, stopping a protection plan will stop the backups on all devices where this plan is applied. If the backup start times for multiple devices are distributed within a time window, stopping a protection plan will stop the running backups or prevent backups from starting.
You can also export a plan to a file and import a previously exported plan.
Monitoring the status of your plans
For some plans, for example, protection plans, VM replication plans, and others, a clickable color-coded status bar is available. It indicates the status of the plan on the workloads that are assigned this plan:
- OK (Green)
- Warning (Orange)
- Error (Red)
- The plan is running (Blue)
- The plan is disabled (Gray)
You can click a section in the status bar to see the number of machines that have that status.