Infrastructure Changes Audit doesn't return friendly name of datastore

[mikeely]

Playing around with this report by doing a minor change and the report shows that but doesn't translate the information into friendly (human-readable) format.

Looks like this:

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Reconfigured cluster ABC in datacenter ABC1 

 Modified: 

 Added: 

 Deleted: 

configurationEx.dasConfig.heartbeatDatastore("datastore-NNNNN"): 'vim.Datastore:[uuid redacted]:datastore-NNNNN';

Should look like this:

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Reconfigured cluster ABC in datacenter ABC1 

 Modified: 

 Added: 

 Deleted: 

configurationEx.dasConfig.heartbeatDatastore("Old-Spinny-Disks"): 'SomethingMuchFriendlier:Old-Spinny-Disks';

Is there a configuration setting or a modification to the report that I can use to fix this?

[mikeely]

When I go into Report Builder it looks like the stuff I'd want to change is in the Change Details field but I don't see a way to modify that.

[chris.childerhose]

What version of VONE are you running? Just curious as on v11a of VONE the reports are much better including this one for Auditing.

[mikeely]

It's 11.0.1.1880 - not sure how that maps to v11a|b|c|etc

[chris.childerhose]

Yeah, that is 11a. We use VONE so I am digging around to see if I can get the same results.

[wishr]

Hi Mike and Chris,

We did not change the Infrastructure Changes Audit report for a while. Chris is probably speaking about backup-related audit reports - these got several enhancements in the latest versions of Veeam ONE.

Report builder allows you to build a custom report using parts (sections) of other reports, but it does not allow to change the data representation in these report parts.

As far as I remember, the Infrastructure Changes Audit report is event-based, so it basically shows the data based on the events pulled from the hypervisor, meaning we have no control over that data. Let us dig into that and get back to you with additional details.

By the way, do you see the "friendly datastore names" in the corresponding events on the hypervisor?

Thanks

[RomanK]

Hello Mike and Chris,

Indeed, Infrastructure Changes Audit is based on the events. The event description column contains the text provided by API without changes.

Custom Infrastructure report could help to match UUID (MoRef) with a friendly name.
For your example above use the next parameters:
Object type: vSphere Datastore
Columns: Name and MoRef


In the report you would see something like that:


Thanks

[chris.childerhose]

Thanks, @RomanK - that is a great explanation. Hopefully, this helps Mike out.