how to translate TargetHostID to the guest server name?

[dannordquist]

I'm using powershell to GetLastResult for veeam jobs that have failed or warning status, but the result only gives me a binary hash for the guest server. How do I get the actual name of the server, and if possible, how do I return the failure or warning message with powershell?

Anyone know how to do this?

Thank you,
Dan

[veremin]

Hi, Dan,

Kindly, try the following script:

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$Job = Get-VBRJob -name "Name of your Job"
$LastSession = $Job.FindLastSession()
$LastSession | Get-VBRTaskSession | ?{$_.status -eq "Failed"} | select name

Thanks.

[dannordquist]

Excellent! That's perfect. Thank you.

[dannordquist]

Any advice on how to pull the warning/error message text?

[veremin]

You can get text strings from the latest task session, using the following script. The error message should be there:

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$LastSession.Logger.GetLog().updatedrecords | sort starttime | select title

Thanks.

[dannordquist]

That gives me "Job finished with warning at 11/9/2014" but it's the details of the warning I'm looking for

[veremin]

What about querying Task sessions, then:

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$TaskSession = $LastSession | Get-VBRTaskSession 
$TaskSession.Logger.GetLog().updatedrecords | sort starttime | select title 

Thanks.

[dannordquist]

$Job = Get-VBRJob -name "Tier4d-MD-VM1"
$LastSession = $Job.FindLastSession()
$LastSession | Get-VBRTaskSession | ?{$_.status -eq "Warning"} | select name

Name
----
server01


$TaskSession = $LastSession | Get-VBRTaskSession
$TaskSession.Logger.GetLog().updatedrecords | sort starttime | select title
You cannot call a method on a null-valued expression.
At line:1 char:27
+ $TaskSession.Logger.GetLog <<<< ().updatedrecords | sort starttime | select title
+ CategoryInfo : InvalidOperation: (GetLog:String) [], RuntimeException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId : InvokeMethodOnNull

[dannordquist]

Any idea why I'm getting the null error?

Thank you!

[veremin]

I've just tried the script and everything seems to have worked properly. Does $TaskSession contain something in your case? Can you just input it and see whether it returns something or not? Thanks.

[dannordquist]

Yes, when I input $TaskSession it returns a list of all the guest server sessions, but the "$TaskSession.Logger.GetLog().updatedrecords | sort starttime | select title" command still returns the null-value error.

[veremin]

If $TaskSession contains a list of sessions, try to access just one session that has a problematic VM:

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$TaskSession = $LastSession | Get-VBRTaskSession | where {$_.name -eq "Name of problematic VM"}
$TaskSession.Logger.GetLog().updatedrecords | sort starttime | select title

Thanks.

[dannordquist]

Ok, yes, thank you. I can work with that. It returns the details for that vm. Thank you very much!

[dannordquist]

Hey Vladimir, quick question... I've been searching the documentation and looking through returned data with different commands and I can't find where to discover if the running job is an incremental or a full. Can you help? Thank you.

[veremin]

The backup session should have a parameter indicating session type. If my memory serves me well, the parameter is called .IsFullMode:

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$LastSession.IsFullMode

Thanks.

[dannordquist]

you are THE MAN! Yep, that returns a bool... thank you!

[dannordquist]

Another quick question if you don't mind. The veeam jobs sometimes report warnings on the job itself while all the server backups have successfully completed, like this one, "Backup location "E:\Veeam\Backups" is getting low on free disk space (757.3 GB left of 7.3 TB)."

Can you suggest a way to pull the details of that warning?

Also, I am going to post the code I have to share with the forum in a following post. This is so people can use the script you have taught me and improve upon it if they so desire.

Thanks for all your help!
Dan

[nefes]

Here is the code I use in testing, may require some improvements:

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$session = (Get-VSBSession -Name $jobName | Sort-Object StartTime -Descending)[0] # I use it in SureBackup, use corresponding commandlet to search your type of session
$warnings = $session.Logger.GetLog().UpdatedRecords | ?{$_.Status -eq "EWarning"} | Sort-Object UpdateTime | Select -ExpandProperty Title
$fails = $session.Logger.GetLog().UpdatedRecords | ?{$_.Status -eq "EFailed"} | Sort-Object UpdateTime | Select -ExpandProperty Title

[dannordquist]

Thanks nefes, I'll play with that.

[dannordquist]

Can't get that script to work, nefes. I'm a C# expert but not a PS expert so I don't know how to fix the errors I'm getting. I sure am learning PS quickly, though! haha

Vladimir, do you have any suggestions for me, to get the job failure when it's not associated with a server, like the disk space warning above?

Thanks!

[veremin]

Don't those warnings show up, if you query backup sessions, like I've described previously? Thanks.

[dannordquist]

I'll see if I can figure it out based on your previous scripts.

[dannordquist]

yes, you were right, I just needed to getLog() for the job level result in addition to the task level results

thanks again for your help!

[veremin]

No worries. Glad to hear that my input has been helpful. Thanks.