Monitor and update VBA

[b.vanhaastrecht]

Hello,

Now we are deploying more VBA's and we are beginnen to experience what administrative tasks there are. We have some questions regarding this:
- The API does not have upgrade/update routes, are they coming?
- Are we allowed to use and configure "unattended-upgrades" to deploy the updates by schedule?
- Are we allowed to install third party monitoring agents?

Thanks and regards,
Bastiaan

[nielsengelen]

Hi Bastiaan,

1. I will bring this up to look into this for a next release.
2. You can use any 3rd party software for the package management/updates.
3. I don’t expect these packages to create issues for VBA. The only thing which is not supported is to upgrade to a newer Ubuntu version.

[b.vanhaastrecht]

Alright thanks Niels.

[nielsengelen]

Hi Bastiaan,

Regarding the use of unattended upgrades, we currently have to advise not to run it unattended and use the built-in updater for the Veeam products and related packages for VBA.

We are looking into resolving this for an upcoming release to assure everything is fully supported.

[b.vanhaastrecht]

Ok understood, let me describe how we enabled auto updates so you can take this into account when building support for it. We used the build in unattented upgrades method.

Enable the timers for auto upgrade:

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systemctl enable --now apt-daily.timer
systemctl enable --now apt-daily-upgrade.timer

Create override files and place the desired time schedules in there:

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vi /etc/systemd/system/apt-daily.timer.d/override.conf
vi /etc/systemd/system/apt-daily-upgrade.timer.d/override.conf

Check if the times have checked in:

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journalctl --since yesterday -u apt-daily.service
journalctl --since yesterday -u apt-daily-upgrade.service
systemctl cat apt-daily{,-upgrade}.timer
systemctl list-timers --all apt-daily{,-upgrade}.timer
systemctl list-units --all apt-daily.service

Review the interval of unattended upgrades. was already set to every day:

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vi /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades
APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "1";
APT::Periodic::Unattended-Upgrade "1";

Customize the unattended upgrade properties, it was already set to install updates and security updates:
/etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades
Unattended-Upgrade::Mail "you@email.com";
Unattended-Upgrade::Remove-Unused-Dependencies "true";
Unattended-Upgrade::Automatic-Reboot "true";

Configure email:

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cat <<EOT > ~/.msmtprc
account        default
host           smtp-relay-host
port           25
from           vba@somedomain.com
tls_starttls   on
tls_certcheck  off
logfile        /root/.msmtp.log
aliases        /etc/aliases
EOT

Configure email aliasses, this also enabled syslog messages to be relayed to email:

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cat <<EOT > /etc/aliases
root: you@email.com
default: you@email.com
EOT

[nielsengelen]

Thanks for sharing!

[b.vanhaastrecht]

Is auto updating / update status monitoring via API coming with v5?

Sneeking into the upcoming documentation, I see no mentioning of it: https://helpcenter.veeam.com/archive/vb ... tions.html

[nielsengelen]

Hi Bastiaan,

This is not planned for the upcoming release.

[Vitaliy S.]

Hey Bastiaan,

If you need to monitor your backup appliances, you will be able to do that via VSPC + VSPC APIs. Remember our thread from the service providers hidden sub-forums? Will it resolve the issue?

Thanks!