I'm trying to set up PRTG to monitor my backup jobs as described in this article -

https://helpdesk.paessler.com/en/support/solutions/articles/76000063291-how-can-i-monitor-my-backup-software-to-be-sure-backup-succeeded-last-night

Success and Error emails from Veeam work correctly and set the sensor to an 'Up' or 'Down' state as required.

However, I'm having trouble getting the sensor go into a Warning state when the mailbox gets an email with [Warning] in the subject. Instead of a warning state, the sensor will always marked 'Down'.

I think I've got everything set up as described in the knowledge base article so I'm not sure why its not working.

Here's a screenshot of my configuration.

screenshot

Any ideas on how to get this working?

Article Comments

Hello,

I did the following to Monitor Veeam in our Environment:

Just Setup an SQL Sensor to the Veeam Database with the following Query:

SELECT latest_result FROM BJobs WHERE name = 'Jobname'

Warning Condition equals 1
Down Condition equals 2

This worked fine for us

Best Regards


Jun, 2014 - Permalink

Hi, this query does work to a certain extent but how do you qualify if the last result is recent or not.

I mean if there is a job hung for 10 days on a server this sensor will still be green because it dose not check how old the last result is.

I could be days old. is there a way of only getting result for the last 24 hours?


Feb, 2015 - Permalink

Hi,

I have Created a PowerShell Script for the API:

http://mycloudrevolution.com/2016/02/29/prtg-veeam-br-monitoring/

Maybe This helps


Feb, 2016 - Permalink

Hi Markus,

Awesome, thanks for sharing!

Best regards, Felix


Mar, 2016 - Permalink

I use a different approach to monitor Veeam backup and replications.

Firstly, Nightly backups are old school. Many of my server run every 4 or 6 hours.

If a backup/replication fails ONCE, I do not really care. If it fails many times then I do care.

My approach is to report "hours since last success", per job. Then you can setup alerts based on that.

https://thedomainiown.wordpress.com/prtg-related/prtg-script-get-last-good-veeam-backup/ contains the script, and many more details about its usage, along with some todo items planned for the future.


Mar, 2016 - Permalink

Thank you for sharing, Andrew!

Kind regards.


Mar, 2016 - Permalink

Hi Chencdrickson

Please check the Sensor option (on the very bottom) "Scanning interval". Could that be why your sensor goes to error instead of warning?

Scanningintervall

regards Thomas


Mar, 2016 - Permalink

I have also created another version without Enterprise Manger:

Veeam PRTG Sensor Reloaded | my cloud-(r)evolution http://mycloudrevolution.com/2016/03/21/veeam-prtg-sensor-reloaded/


Mar, 2016 - Permalink

Hi Chendrickson

Please also check the option "No matching mail behavior". Seems that if your PRTG does not receive mails anymore, Your sensor will be green forever (depending what you entered way above in the config we don't see on the screenshot)

Also as mentioned above, option "When a sensor reports an Error" (Scanning interval). change to something that suits you.

regards Thomas


May, 2016 - Permalink