Retrieving Object Info from ObjectId (given in Task Session)

[Sindhuja]

Let's say, I have a Job with following object information (using Get-VBRJobObject)

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 "Info":  "Id: f12e5565-0dc9-4fa7-bb0b-50de6999684a, ObjectId: 1983, Path: esx05\\Engg\\Team\\VM74, DisplayName: AvamarVE74, GuestInfo: Veeam.Backup.Model.CGuestInfo, Name: VM74, ViType: VirtualMachine, HostId: 9529eaa-4bfc-4e12-a3f4-cfefee66c9b8, Platform: EVmware, Uuid: 421wd52e-56c2-e832-89bd-34c33239058a, TypeUncasted: 1, IsDirectory: False, IsFile: False, Type: VM, HierarchyType: VirtualMachine"

When I retrieve its task session details (using Get-VBRTaskSession), I get the following..

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"Info":  {
              ....
             "ObjectName":  "VM74",                    
             "ObjectId":  "f12e5565-0dc9-4fa7-bb0b-50de6999684a",
              ....
            }

Is there an API/command to get the object information like "ObjectId: 1983", "ViType:VirtualMachine" by passing "f12e5565-0dc9-4fa7-bb0b-50de6999684a"?

As I discover, the unique identifier ("f12e5565-0dc9-4fa7-bb0b-50de6999684a") is created per object, once it is added to a policy. This unique identifier does not change if I add the same object to another policy.
So, I hope there is a way to retrieve the object information by passing this unique identifier created by Veeam.

Thanks,
Regards,
Sindhuja

[tdewin]

Hi,

Don't have my test env now by check this find-vbrvientity:
https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backu ... tml?ver=95

Pass the virtual machine type. I think the object returned have some kind of Id property (you can check by piping the result to "| get-member")

[veremin]

What are you trying to achieve? Get VM object, using ObjectId from task session?

[Sindhuja]

Thanks for your responses!

• Find-VBRViEntity only takes the VM name as an input, and might not help in this case as the "ObjectId" in task session is different than the "id" available in Find-VBRViEntity.
• Yes, I want to get the object information using the "ObjectId" provided in task session.

Something similar to GetObjects() API on CBackup

Regards,
Sindhuja

[Sindhuja]

I found a way to get the object information associated with a Task Session.
Sample Code Snippet below.

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$session = Get-VBRBackupSession
$taskSession = Get-TaskSession -Session $session[0]

# To find the object information of ObjectId - say 406b792a-dd4e-408e-9a71-b27e3b87926c
# The parent session has a function - FindObject(objectId)

$session[0].FindObject([string]$taskSession[0].Info.ObjectId)

Sample output

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Info                  : Id: 406b792a-dd4e-408e-9a71-b27e3b87926c, ObjectId: 1268, Path: esx05\temp_1\SLab_4, DisplayName: SLab_4, GuestInfo: 
                        Veeam.Backup.Model.CGuestInfo, Name: SLab_4, ViType: VirtualMachine, HostId: 95291baa-4bfc-4e12-a3f4-cfefee66c945, Platform: EVmware, Uuid: 
                        42172fc1-9e04-0174-e3b9-cd87611815bc, TypeUncasted: 1, IsDirectory: False, IsFile: False, Type: VM, HierarchyType: VirtualMachine, Id: 
                        406b792a-dd4e-408e-9a71-b27e3b87926c
Id                    : 406b792a-dd4e-408e-9a71-b27e3b87926c
Name                  : SLab_4
ObjectId              : 1268
HostId                : 95291baa-4bfc-4e12-a3f4-cfefee66c945
GuestInfo             : Veeam.Backup.Model.CGuestInfo
Uuid                  : 42172fc1-9e04-0174-e3b9-cd87611815bc
ParentId              : 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000
Type                  : VM
Platform              : EVmware
FaultToleranceType    : None
IsFileSystemDirectory : False
IsFile                : False
Host                  : Veeam.Backup.Core.Common.CHost
ViType                : VirtualMachine
ObjectRef             : 1268

Can someone confirm this approach?

Thank you,
Sindhuja

[thjor]

Hi Sindhuja

I did it a little different which seems to improve performance since you don't have to use Get-TaskSession.

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$Session = $job.FindLastSession().GetOriginalAndRetrySessions($true)[0]
$Tasks = $Session.GetTaskSessions()
if ($Tasks){
  foreach ($task in $Tasks)
  {
    $obj = $Session.FindObject([string]$task.Info.ObjectId)
  }
}

Regards
Thomas