Get Data Source

Applies To: System Center 2012 - Orchestrator, System Center 2012 R2 Orchestrator, System Center 2012 SP1 - Orchestrator

The Get Data Source activity retrieves information about Data Sources from either a production server (a computer that has the Data Protection Manager Protection Agent installed) or from a protection group (a named entity that holds the backup policy for a workload). A data source is a workload that is currently protected or will be protected by Data Protection Manager. When the Get Data Source activity is used in a protection scenario, you select a production server which becomes the default. When this activity is used in a recovery scenario, you will select a protection group or the production Server.

The common filters for this activity are as follows:

• Name contains or matches a pattern

• Protected - True or False

This activity returns the Data Source ID (DataSourceId) which is used in all activities except Get DPM Server Capacity.

For the procedure to configure this object, see: Configuring the Get Data Source Activity.

The following tables list the properties and published data for this activity. The activity publishes all the data from the required and optional properties into published data.

Get Data Source Properties

Get Data Source Filters

Get Data Source Published Data

Configuring the Get Data Source Activity

To configure the Get Data Source activity

1. From the Activities window, drag a Get Data Source activity to the active runbook. Double-click the Get Data Source activity icon.

2. On the Properties tab, click the ellipsis button (...), and select the Name of the Data Protection Manager computer that you want to connect to for this activity.

3. In the Properties section, select the Data Source Location that you want to use for this activity, and enter the Name of the target that you want to query.

4. By default, all data sources including Hyper-V, SharePoint, SQL, and System Protection are returned. To filter the returned data sources, click the Filters tab. In the Filters section, click Add. In the Name box, click the down arrow and select an item from the list that you want to use to define this runbook.

5. In the Relation box, click the down arrow and select a relationship descriptor for the filter.

6. In the Value box, click the ellipsis button (...) and select a value to be applied to this filter. If the ellipsis button does not appear for the filter you have selected, enter the value you want to use, and then click OK.

   If applicable, to automatically populate the value for a filter from the data published by any previous activity in the runbook, right-click the Value box, Point to Subscribe, and then click Published data. Click the published data element you want to use, and then click OK.

7. Add additional filters as needed.

8. To make changes to a filter, click the filter and then click Edit. Make the necessary changes, and then click OK. To remove a filter, click the filter and then click Remove.

9. For information about the settings on the General and Run Behavior tabs, see Common Configuration Instructions for all Activities.

10. Click Finish.

Other Activities

The Integration Pack for Data Protection Manager contains the following additional activities:

• Create Recovery Point

• Get DPM Server Capacity

• Get Recovery Point

• Protect Data Source

• Recover SharePoint

• Recover SQL

• Recover VM