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Here it is: Powershell script to add VEB-EMails

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EMails on success/failure has been an often requested feature, VEB is not a viable way to backup servers, so I wrote this script (Tested on W7 and W2k8 R2 SP2)
Copy the Script to the computer running VEB.
Create a Task, triggered by an event of the source "Veeam Endpoint Backup"
Make sure that the event is really happening, I wondered a lot that the task was "ready" but no mails came, although VEB finished and the script was ok. I had to "execute" it once.

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###########################################################
# Edit this part:
$youremailserver= 	"YourServerName"
$sender		=	"YourSenderAddress"
$recipient	=	"YourRecipient"
###########################################################

# Put most info into the body of the email:
$TimeGenerated	= 	get-eventlog "Veeam Endpoint Backup" -newest 1 -entrytype Information, Warning, Error -source "Veeam Endpoint Backup" | Format-List -property TimeGenerated | out-string
$Source		=	get-eventlog "Veeam Endpoint Backup" -newest 1 -entrytype Information, Warning, Error -source "Veeam Endpoint Backup" | Format-List -property Source | out-string
$EntryType	=	get-eventlog "Veeam Endpoint Backup" -newest 1 -entrytype Information, Warning, Error -source "Veeam Endpoint Backup" | Format-List -property EntryType | out-string
$Message	=	get-eventlog "Veeam Endpoint Backup" -newest 1 -entrytype Information, Warning, Error -source "Veeam Endpoint Backup" | Format-List -property Message | out-string
$InstanceID	=	get-eventlog "Veeam Endpoint Backup" -newest 1 -entrytype Information, Warning, Error -source "Veeam Endpoint Backup" | Format-List -property InstanceID| out-string
$Body		=	" $TimeGenerated Instance-ID: $InstanceID $Message "


# Determine the subject according to the result of the backup:
if ($Message.contains("Success")) {
	$subject = "EndpointBackup finished with Success." 
} elseif ($InstanceID.contains("110")) {
	$subject = "EndpointBackup started."
} else {	
	$subject = "EndpointBackup finished but NO SUCCESS!! Check Body for details."
}


# Send the email using the powershell object (replace with e.g. blat.exe for older powershell-Versions)
if ($InstanceID.contains("110") -Or  $InstanceID.contains("190")) {
	Send-MailMessage -To $recipient -Subject $subject -From $sender -Body $body -SmtpServer $Youremailserver 
} else {
	write-host "I don't want messages on 10010 and 10050 Restorepoint-creation or -remove Emails, skip those"
}


write-host "Script finished with -$instanceID- as the last event-ID"

I hope that someone finds the code useful, although I would really appreciate if it would be a feature of VEB instead of this peace of additional artwork.
Thanks so far for this useful free tool!
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Re: Here it is: Powershell script to add VEB-EMails

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Hello Michael,
Thank you for your time – the script is awesome! You should have added yourself as an author to the comments at the beginning of the script :D
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Thanks.
Just noticed: please take out "-Attachments body.txt" from the Send-MailMessage - Line. Then it works.
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Michael,
I've corrected the script according to your post, please, check if it’s ok now? Hopefully, I’ll be able to test it myself later today.
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Re: Here it is: Powershell script to add VEB-EMails

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Dima,

Didn't rerun it again, but looks ok like this. Thank you.
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Is there a way to set it to only email on failures?
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Thank you for this.
Fantastic script and working well.
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Hi theflash89,

Yes, you can set it to "errors only" by changing the parameter "-entrytype Information, Warning, Error" to "-entrytype Error"
I didn't tried it out, but that's the way it's supposed to work.

Keep in mind that if you do it like this you don't get any messages if the backup didn't take place, maybe because the service is not running or whatever.
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Post by lrosa » 2 people like this post

Hi,
thank you for this useful script.

Here's a patch of the parsing section to produce a subject with the same style as the default Veeam B&R mail report and the hostname of the Windows host, in case you set this script on multiple PCs/Servers

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# Determine the subject according to the result of the backup:
$hostname = hostname
if ($Message.contains("Success")) {
   $subject = "[Success] Endpoint Backup $hostname"
} elseif ($InstanceID.contains("110")) {
   $subject = "[Started] Endpoint Backup $hostname"
} else {   
   $subject = "[Failed] Endpoint Backup $hostname failed"
}
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Thanks for the patch. Looks nicer that way, more like B&R-Mails, better for Outlook rules .

I experienced a strange behaviour on our different Mailservers:

Depending on their configuration, you have to set -usessl in the send-message-line:

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Send-MailMessage -To $recipient -Subject $subject -From $sender -Body $body -SmtpServer $Youremailserver -usessl
Try this if you have your server authorised to send mails but still having those "for your smtp-Server a secure connection is needed..."
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Michael,

Thanks for the addition. This is indeed a known one depending on the config of your mail server. But I am sure that many will have that config so your additional line is very much appreciated

Cheers

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Thanks for the script. However it's not completely working for us as our VEB installation generates an EventID 0 at exactly the same time stamp as the EventID 190. Due to this EventID 0 the task scheduler won't launch the task for the EventID 190 because another instance is already running. I set task scheduler to run a new event in parallel but it stills misses the event. The end result is that the script doesn't run for the EventID 190 so we don't receive an email.

Another odd thing is that our EventID for 'Backup Job Started" is 23050 (not 110).

As a workaround I set the get-eventlog parameter to retrieve the last 2 events (get-eventlog "Veeam Endpoint Backup" -newest 2) which works but it clutters up the notification

Has anyone else experienced this?

Does anyone else have a EventID 0 for every VEB job? Or an EventID of 23050?
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Hi Dean,

I don't have those. Event ID 23050 is normally seen with the Veeam Management Pack and not with VEBF. Can you pass us 2 screenshots of your event viewer, with the tree and one located on the event 0 and one on evet 23050?

Thanks

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Dean,

Also, I just remembered that 23050, the 0 and 190 were used either in the beta or the RC... Which version are you running? Go to Control Panel, update and see what your version is...
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Hi Mike,

This server was running the RC but then I upgraded (didn't uninstall RC first) to v1.0.0.1921. I see v1.0.0.1954 is now available (looking at Veeam website download section) yet the update feature in VEB advises it's up to date (separate issue).

I'm happy to uninstall this installation and re-install as I presume that will fix the EventID's. Before I uninstall/re-install do you know how I can backup/restore the configuration (most important would be the USB hard drive registrations)?

Do you know if a re-install will affect the existing backup chains?

Many thanks...Dean
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Dean,

The update functionality didn't work in the beta in RC versions hence the reason why it didn't tell you to update. I certainly advise you to uninstall and update because the GA version fixes lots of things and we don't support the beta or RC versions anymore.

BUT, before you do, it is important to know a few things:

1. You will need to start over again. We made significant changes between RC and GA. Uninstall the RC (control panel, add/remove programs) and re-install the GA version. That means you need to recreate your backup job and the recovery ISO? There are no worries about the USB hard drive registration though. When creating the job again, just point it to that HDD and it will be used again.

2. It will become a whole new backup chain. As said, the changes are too big to continue to use the old chain.

3. You won't be able to recover from your old backups anymore. If you still think that will be necessary, I advise you to keep the backups (until the X days are over), keep the installer for the RC somewhere safe, and if necessary, install RC on a VM (then you can use that one to recover whatever you want from the old backups)

Cheers

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Hi Michael,

great script! I implemented it and it works fine. As we don't have a local SMTP mail server I created a google account for my client and integrated the use of the sendEmail-v156 utility.

Now we know if the backup has run and whether it was successful or not.

Thank you,

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When i test the script manually with powershell ... it's work.

But when i'm trying using with event monitoring in the task scheduled... i'm not receiving any email. What i'm doing wrong i'm my tasks settings ?

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Hi Oliver,

Can you describe us (be as detailed as possible) how you have created your scheduled task? Maybe we can figure out what's wrong

Thanks

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In General :
Run whether user is logged on or not
Run with highest privileges
Password stored

Trigger
On an event
Basic
Log : Veeam Endpoint Backup
Source : Veeam Endpoint Backup
Enabled

Action :
Start a program c:\veeamscript.ps1

Settings and conditions by default
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Olivier,

I don't see anything wrong here... did you trigger the task manually once? I have heard that it needs to triggered (not the script, but the scheduled task itself) before it actually does something. (No idea why, but that is what he heard...)

Let me know

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I have had situations where I created a task and tried to run it manually and it fails. I have had to populate the "Start In:" field to get it to work. So if my script path is: "C:\scripts\Veeam.ps1" then the Start In field is: "C:\scripts"

Just a thought and hope it helps.
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Mike,

Please note that I did install the GA version, am currently running the GA version, and it's the GA version that is producing these old EventID's. I can't remember for sure if I uninstalled the RC version or just installed GA over top of RC (think the latter). Anyhow it looks like I need to uninstall my current GA and then reinstall to fix this.

Regarding the USB hard drive registration, the issue is we rotate 4 hard drives (1 drive per week). On the weekly change will I have to manually register the hard drives again (if yes I realize it will be on the first rotation only) or is there a way I can avoid this (backup/restore the current hard drive registrations).

Thanks again.

Dean
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Dean,

I'm not sure, but I believe you will need to register them again...

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I have added the "Start In" infos... no more success

I have tried to end and restart the task...

The result is (0x41306) does that mean something for you ?
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Not sure why it is happening but it means: The last run of the task was terminated by the user
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Ok... so this is only a confirmation that i ended the task erlier...

So because i'm not receiving any alert email... it's means to me that the trigger is not working... but why ? :(
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Good question...

Can you try to delete the scheduled task and recreate it? After recreating, run it manually once

(Sorry, kind of getting out of ideas here...)
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I am stuck with this as well. I can manually run the PowerShell script with no problem and I get the email. When I use task scheduler the job runs and stays running until I manually end it with no email being sent. I have created the job a couple times with the same result. I have it running as an admin with highest privileges. Any ideas from the gallery would be appreciated!
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As a follow up, I went to Event Viewer and right click the 109 Event and said to Attach Task to This Event and let it create the task that way. Double checked settings and same result as if I manually create the task with it just sitting and running.
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