What metric in Active IQ Unified Manager indicates an unprotected dataset?

Active IQ Unified Manager (AIQUM) uses clear, descriptive health and status metrics to report on the state of storage objects. For a volume or other dataset, the "Health" or "Protection" status field directly indicates its protection state. A value of “Unprotected” explicitly means that AIQUM has not detected a valid, active SnapMirror or SnapVault policy associated with that dataset, making it the primary metric for identifying protection gaps.

A. Latency > 20ms is a performance metric indicating slow response times, not a lack of data protection.

C. Transfer Lag = 0 is a SnapMirror metric indicating the destination is perfectly synchronized with the source; it only applies to volumes that are already protected.

D. IOPS = 0 is a performance metric indicating that a volume is currently idle, which has no correlation with its protection status.

1. NetApp Active IQ Unified Manager Documentation. "Monitor protection of your data with Unified Manager". This guide explicitly mentions the "Unprotected Volumes" view and using the protection status to identify at-risk data.

2. NetApp Knowledge Base. "How to identify unprotected volumes in Active IQ Unified Manager". This article details the steps to generate a report or view the dashboard, which relies on the "Protection Status" field being "Unprotected".