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# View Protection dashboard

The Protection Dashboard provides storage group summary protection information, summarizing the worst states of various replication technologies and counts of management objects participating in these technologies.

## Prerequisites

The user requires a minimum of Monitor permissions to perform this task. See Roles and associated permissions to determine the user roles that can perform this task.

## About this task

To view the Protection dashboard:

## Steps

1. From the main menu, click Unisphere for PowerMax.
2. Select a storage system.
   The system health dashboard is displayed by default (see View performance and capacity dashboard for a specific storage system).
3. Optional: Hover over Protection to view the protection summary for the storage groups in the storage system.
4. Click Protection and view the following items:
   - A summary panel is displayed. The storage group summary information can be filtered by volume type: ALL, FBA, or CKD.
     For systems running PowerMaxOS 10 (6079) and PowerMaxOS 5978 Q3 2020 or later, the following summary information is included:
     - Storage Group Compliance
       - Snapshot Policies
     - Protected Storage Groups
       - Manual SnapVX (including zDP snapshots)
       - Clone
       - SRDF
     - High Availability
       - SRDF/Metro
       - SRDF/MetroDR
     For systems running HYPERMAX OS 5977 and PowerMaxOS 5978 prior to Q3 2020, the following summary information is included:
     - Protected Storage Groups
       - Manual SnapVX (including zDP snapshots)
       - Clone
       - SRDF
     - High Availability
       - SRDF/Metro

     Each category has a round, colored icon with the number of storage groups in the state corresponding to the color. To view the storage groups that are in the indicated states, you can click the row which brings you to the technologies storage group list view that is filtered to show only the applicable storage groups for the selected state.

     The color coding - represent the states as follows:

     Normal - Green; Warning - Yellow; Error - Red; Unprotected - Gray

     Clicking a category opens the Replication Dashboard for that particular category, for example, clicking Clone opens the Clone Storage Groups list.

     A visual display of SRDF topology is available (see View SRDF Topology view, SRDF Pair Topology view, and Migration Environments view).

     A visual display of Migration environments is available (see View SRDF Topology view, SRDF Pair Topology view, and Migration Environments view).

   - The following controls are available:
     - Create Snapshot— Create snapshots (for storage systems running HYPERMAX OS 5977 or PowerMaxOS 5978)
     - Create Snapshot Policy— Create a snapshot policy (For storage systems running PowerMaxOS 5978 Q3 2020)
     - Create SRDF Group— Create SRDF groups
     - Create Migration Environment— Set up a migration environment
     - Create Virtual Witness— Add SRDF Virtual Witness instances (for storage systems running HYPERMAX OS 5977 or PowerMaxOS 5978)
     - Remote Machine Table— View remote machine table (for storage systems running PowerMaxOS 5978)