Understanding plans

The availability of some of the features depends on the offering items that are enabled for your account.

A plan is a set of configurations and rules that you can apply on one or several workloads to achieve different goals, such as backing up a workload, protecting a workload from malware, monitoring the workload's performance, etc.

A plan consists of modules that you can enable or disable. Each module contains settings that are related to a specific functionality.

All plans that you created are visible on the Management tab.

Plan	Description
Protection plan	Protects the data on the workload. The protection plan consists of the following modules: Backup Implementing disaster recovery Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Antivirus and Antimalware protection URL filtering Windows Defender Antivirus Microsoft Security Essentials Vulnerability assessment Patch management Data protection map Device control Advanced Data Loss Prevention For more information about the protection plans, see Protection plans and modules.
Remote management plan	Enables the remote desktop and assistance functionality on your managed workloads. For more information, see Remote management plans.
Scripting plan	Enables the script execution on multiple workloads, the scheduled script execution, and the configuration of additional script settings. For more information, see Scripting plans.
Monitoring plan	Monitors the performance, hardware, software, system, and security parameters of your managed workloads. For more information, see Monitoring plans.
Software deployment plan	Automates the software deployment process and ensures that the software distribution across your managed workloads is consistent.
Cloud applications backup	Backs up applications running in the cloud by means of agents that run in the cloud and uses the cloud storage as a backup location. For more information, see Backup plans for cloud applications
Backup scanning plan	Scans backups for malware (including ransomware).
VM replication	Scans backups for malware (including ransomware). For more information, see Replication of virtual machines.
Validation	Validates a backup and verifies that the data from the backup can be recovered. For more information, see Validation.
Cleanup	Deletes outdated backups according to the retention rules. This plan is only applicable to agents and workloads, and not cloud to cloud backups. For more information, see Cleanup.
Conversion to VM	This plan is applicable only for disk-level backups. Checks if a backup includes the system volume and contains all of the information necessary for the operating system to start so that the resulting virtual machine can start on its own. For more information, see Conversion to a virtual machine.
Backup replication	Replicates a backup to another location. For more information, see Backup replication.

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.

The status of a plan applied on a workload might not correspond to the status of the workload. For example, a protection plan can be successfully applied on a workload, so its status will appear as OK (green). At the same time, the workload could be offline, so it's status on the Devices tab will be red.