Event Viewer

[ober72]

Hi Folks,

Is it possible to setup an alarm in VeeamOne based windows event viewer result?

I found a few things about this but it was lacking in detail.

Thanks

[Mike Resseler]

Hi Geoff,

Yes you can, the procedure is written here: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/one/a ... tml?ver=95

Cheers
Mike

[Shestakov]

Hi Geoff,
Besides the way Mike`s suggested, you may also create an alarm from Tasks&Events tab in Veeam ONE Monitor. Just find the event and create a related alarm.
Thanks!

[ober72]

Thanks Mike and Nikita,

I want to see if I can through powershel create an event by say connecting to AD or exchange port and then have that event get got by Veeamone if unsuccessful. I believe that in Surebackup jobs testing AD and Exchange is done in a similar manner i.e. seeing if the port for the services is listening. Don't know how realistic this is but worth a try.

[Shestakov]

That doesn`t sound realistic. Here is how Veeam ONE collects events:

• All vSphere events. I.e. everything you can see in vSphere client can be used for Veeam ONE rule
• Some Hyper-V events. Not all of them because there are lots of useless ones which are filtered not to load traffic and DB
• All generated Veeam Backup Events.

You may review Tasks&Events tabs in Veeam ONE console to understand if the alarm is collected by Veeam ONE.

If you want other events to be collected and used as a trigger, this thread is the best place to discuss the feature request.

[ober72]

Ok thanks Nikita.. It was a long shot. I see in other threads that there might be some hope for VeeamOne 10 to monitor some guest processes.

cheers

[Shestakov]

That`s correct, but it relates only to Guest OS services and processes so far.
Could you specify the events you want to track with Veeam ONE?
Thanks!

[ober72]

AD, Exchange, something like what surebackup jobs do to test that these services are working properly, and yes come guess processes (applications).

Thanks

[Shestakov]

AD and Exchange events are pretty far away for now, but if you provide more details to the request, it will help us a lot.

We can include Surebackup-related events to one of the upcoming releases if they can be useful.
There are existing Surebackup job - related alarms already. Could you elaborate on the use case when you need particular events?
Thanks

[ober72]

Hi Nikita,

This would be a very basic alarm if AD stopped working or exchange which I believe can be achieved by simply checking if the port 389 and 25 are listening on the given VM's. I think if I am not mistaken that when the sure backup job brings up AD and exchange (Sql too) it does something like this and if the ports are listening gives a success. Here the port was no longer listening the alarm would send an email. The check could be setup at a desired interval.

cheers

[Shestakov]

This would be a very basic alarm if AD stopped working or exchange which I believe can be achieved by simply checking if the port 389 and 25 are listening on the given VM's.

That indeed is to be resolved by the service state alarms.

I think if I am not mistaken that when the sure backup job brings up AD and exchange (Sql too) it does something like this and if the ports are listening gives a success. Here the port was no longer listening the alarm would send an email. The check could be setup at a desired interval.

If something goes wrong during Surebackup, it is shown by the job`s result and explained in the details.