Maintenance Mode reporting

[ajulio]

Hello,

I'm looking for a way to consolidate all information about VMs and host updates, both past and future, for my entire infrastructure. I came across Veeam ONE maintenance mode feature that might meet my needs.
But to use it I need to be able to generate reports on past VMs or hosts that were in maintenance mode, schedule future maintenance mode periods, and also include in the report the comments of the schedule maintenance because that's where I will detail what was done during each maintenance session.

How can I generate a report with this information?

[ajulio]

No feedback at all?
It's not possible to get simple a report with machines that where or that have any schedule maintenance?

The feature is very useful for me, once I have all my infrastructure in Veeam ONE (its just pity that we cannot add a comment when enter or exit maintenance mode), but not getting any kind of report takes this unuseful for me

[jorgedlcruz]

Hello,
We do not have a report today that reports on actions performed on Veeam ONE itself. But it seems like a great functionality for the future.
I have been reviewing our Audit Logs, to see if this is send to Syslog, the maintenance task is correctly logged, but without details or difficult to consume:

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- <Event xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/win/2004/08/events/event">
- <System>
  <Provider Name="Veeam ONE" /> 
  <EventID Qualifiers="0">2</EventID> 
  <Version>0</Version> 
  <Level>4</Level> 
  <Task>0</Task> 
  <Opcode>0</Opcode> 
  <Keywords>0x80000000000000</Keywords> 
  <TimeCreated SystemTime="2025-01-20T18:05:49.7034472Z" /> 
  <EventRecordID>216020</EventRecordID> 
  <Correlation /> 
  <Execution ProcessID="0" ThreadID="0" /> 
  <Channel>Veeam ONE</Channel> 
  <Computer>veeamone.jorgedelacruz.es</Computer> 
  <Security UserID="S-1-5-21-1361230027-1209731389-1107677195-500" /> 
  </System>
- <EventData>
  <Data>Maintenance mode schedule was changed. The change was initiated from Veeam ONE Client.</Data> 
  <Data>28</Data> 
  <Data>S-1-5-21-1361230027-1209731389-1107677195-500</Data> 
  <Data>VEEAMONE\Administrator</Data> 
  <Data>127.0.0.1</Data> 
  <Data>C:\Program Files\Veeam\Veeam ONE\Veeam ONE Monitor Server\VeeamDCS.exe</Data> 
  <Data>CPipeRequestProcessor::CProcessor::onSetEntityMaintenanceSchedule</Data> 
  <Data>Veeam ONE server</Data> 
  <Data><changes><object type="MaintenanceModeSchedule"><property internal="Schedule" type="array"><object identifier="1" changeType="Addition"><property internal="ScheduleId" type="__int64"><new>1</new><old></old></property><property internal="InfrastructureObjectId" type="__int64"><new>5</new><old></old></property><property internal="MaintenanceModeType" type="enumeration"><new>2</new><old></old></property><property internal="Comment" type="string"><new>Test schedule</new><old></old></property><property internal="ScheduleType" type="enumeration"><new>1</new><old></old></property><property internal="ScheduleStatus" type="enumeration"><new>1</new><old></old></property><property internal="ObjectTreeType" type="enumeration"><new>Virtual Infrastructure</new><old></old></property><property internal="ScheduleEnabled" type="bool"><new>1</new><old></old></property><property internal="ScheduleDay" type="int"><new>0</new><old></old></property><property internal="ScheduleUtcOffset" type="int"><new>0</new><old></old></property><property internal="ScheduleStartTime" type="COleDateTimeEx"><new>2025-01-20T18:00:00.000+00:00</new><old></old></property><property internal="ScheduleEndTime" type="COleDateTimeEx"><new>2025-01-20T20:00:00.000+00:00</new><old></old></property><property internal="ScheduleTimezone" type="string"><new>GMT Standard Time</new><old></old></property></object></property></object></changes></Data> 
  </EventData>
  </Event>

If those events could list the changes a bit better, like to what node it was applied, plus the comment, then we could be much closer.

Another interesting report could be Infrastructure Changes Audit, under vSphere Configuration Tracking, but for that you would need to add some Notes to the VMs/Hosts, and then filter out the report, which is pretty limited at the moment.

As said, it is an interesting feature request which we will discuss and see if we can include it in future releases.

Thank you

[ajulio]

Hello Jorge,

Thanks for your reply.
And Yes to your consideratiosn, as I believe its normal to have all infrastructure in Veeam One, and the maintenance functionality its already there, having some more details like the comments and reporting, it will be a great feature to be added, in this way we have in one place tracking for all maintenance period of all infrastructure, with some details of what as been done.

Thank you again for you comments.