monitor services/processes?

[airzyk]

does veeam one have the capability of monitoring services/processes within a guest OS? For instance checking to see if DNS or DHCP is up and running?

[veremin]

Veeam Monitor allows monitoring in-guest process. For doing it:

Click the corresponding VM in Virtual Infrastructure View -> Navigation -> In-guest Process.

Please, be aware that you will have to provide OS authentication credentials (user name and password) to access the list of running processes.

Unfortunately, right at the moment there is no similar functionality for services.

Hope this helps.
Thanks.

[$username]

Is this something that is being investigated?

I am in a situation right now where this would be very useful.

[Shestakov]

Hello,
Could you specify what data do you need to be monitored and what kind of hypervisor are you using(VMware/Hyper-v)?
Thanks!

[$username]

We're using ESXi, we'd like to be able to monitor core services on certain services.

Example we'd like Veeam Monitor to email us if the vCenter service stops on our vCenter servers.

[Vitaliy S.]

Hmm... but in this case you would get immediate alert from Veeam ONE that connection to vCenter Server is not available, right?

[$username]

*facepalm*

Of course.

Well this useless case aside it would be a handy feature.

[Vitaliy S.]

Sure, thanks for the feedback

[$username]

I have a not dumb reason!

Our FTP server service sometimes hangs, if Veeam could monitor the service we would be notified before users start complaining.

[Varlox]

Hi @ all,

is there any update?
It would be great to get a specified monitoring for selected services.

[Vitaliy S.]

Hi Varlox, it is not coming in v9, but we keep researching on the most efficient and light-weight way of monitoring services without installing persistent agent inside the VM.

[Varlox]

Thanks Vitaliy for the update.
Too bad, I hope this feature will then be available in v10.
Because there's nothing worse than having to use multiple programs, because a single program can not.
You can use powershell commands like this: Get-CimInstance win32_service -computer sql1 | Sort state | select name, state
or Get-wmiobject win32_service -Filter "startmode = 'auto' AND state != 'running' AND Exitcode !=0 " -ComputerName sql1 | select name, startname, exitcode
without an agent and then bring it up to your UI.

[Vitaliy S.]

Sure we can do that, even via WMI it should be possible, the main question is scalability and how many VMs will have their services monitored. Thanks for the PS script example!

[Varlox]

Your always welcome.

In our case we have not more then 10 server for this special monitoring.
We want to know, is our SQL-Server running, our Oracle Server, our IIS with our portal, our SharePoint.
Or the SFTP services.
Often after rebooting (patching OS) some services won't start itself.
Often the server is still running and the SQL-Services hung, or the IIS portal is not available because the service crashed.
Sure, you can buy expensive software for that, they can try restarting the services automatically.
But it would be enough, when I get a mail... Hey Varlox, stay up the IIS is not running, fix it

[Vitaliy S.]

Got it, maybe some predefined templates for these services would do the trick.

[Varlox]

Hi again

after some monthes, we installed and configured VEEAM ONE in our env.
I'm looking now for monitoring services - like
SharePoint
SQL
IIS

It would be nice, that we can configure it with our help Vitaliy.

BR
Varlox

[Vitaliy S.]

Varlox, this feature didn't make it to v9 release, as it was too late to develop it.

[Varlox]

Hi Vitaliy,
yes I know, but you wrote this here:

Sure we can do that, even via WMI it should be possible, the main question is scalability and how many VMs will have their services monitored. Thanks for the PS script example!

Is it possible to do this?

BR,

[Vitaliy S.]

Actually, I was confirming that your approach would work, but we need to work on this (write code for it). What you can try to do is to generate your own custom event in the vCenter Server based on your script above and then create an alarm in Veeam ONE based on the triggered event in the vCenter Server. Pretty complex workaround, but it might do the trick.

[Iain_Green]

Your always welcome.

In our case we have not more then 10 server for this special monitoring.
We want to know, is our SQL-Server running, our Oracle Server, our IIS with our portal, our SharePoint.
Or the SFTP services.
Often after rebooting (patching OS) some services won't start itself.
Often the server is still running and the SQL-Services hung, or the IIS portal is not available because the service crashed.
Sure, you can buy expensive software for that, they can try restarting the services automatically.
But it would be enough, when I get a mail... Hey Varlox, stay up the IIS is not running, fix it

Any news on this?

I am currently being asked to compare Veeam One to our existing monitoring system. Service monitoring is high on the list.

[Shestakov]

Hello Iain,
There are no guest service monitoring yet, however, this feature might be available in the later releases.
Thanks!

[zahradnik]

Hello,
I would be also interested in custom monitoring (PING, availability of web page) or even possibility to write my own plugins to do custom check of my services. I know I can use different tools, but would like to have monitoring centralized.

Any roadmap so far?

[Shestakov]

Hello Jan and welcome to the community!
The features are not in the road map yet, but we may add them due to fair number of requests.
Could you name tools you are using for this kind of monitoring?
Thanks!