Feature Request: Custom e-mail notification templates

[aeccles]

I am sure there are a lot of us out there that review a large number of jobs each morning. It would be great if we could build some custom email subject lines with some variables to save us from having to open each email.

For example, if the following variables were available

Status (currently there)
Job Name (currently there)
Start time
End Time
Size
Read
Transferred
Duration
Dedup
Backup Size
Compression
etc...

Then we could build a email notification subject line that would suit our individual needs, such as:

[Status] [Job Name] [Transferred] [Duration]

Thanks for the consideration

Aaron

[Gostev]

Hi Aaron, for larger backup environments, you should definitely consider advanced B&R monitoring and reporting we provide with our Veeam ONE solution (part of Veeam Backup Management Suite). Thanks!

[aeccles]

Hi Gostev,

Thanks for the Veeam ONE recommendation. My use case is a bit different however as I am a MSP managing many jobs across many different customers. In most cases, the customers are small only have 1 or 2 hosts with a couple of vms, so it's harder to make a good case for Veeam One (despite it being just as important.) In this scenario, being able to get more information out of the alerts "at-a-glance" would probably save me an hour or two of work a day. I realize it's probably not a common request, but I bet a lot of people (especially other MSPs) would really appreciate if they had it

Thanks again
Aaron

[veremin]

Hi, Aaron.

I believe it might be possible to create such a report with the use of Veeam PowerShell Snap-in, since virtually every fields you’ve mentioned are available there.

Thanks.

[veremin]

And that’s what I’ve meant:

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Add-PSSnapin VeeamPSSnapin
$Job = Get-VBRJob -Name "Name of your Backup Job"
#Name of the job
$Job.name
$LastSession = $Job.FindLastSession()
#Creation Time
$LastSession.CreationTime
#End Time
$LastSession.EndTime
#Read size
($LastSession | Get-VBRTaskSession).Progress.Readsize
#Transferred size
($LastSession | Get-VBRTaskSession).Progress.TransferredSize
#Duration
($LastSession | Get-VBRTaskSession).Progress.Duration
#Backup size
$LastSession.BackupStats.Backupsize
#Compression Ratio
$LastSession.BackupStats.CompressRatio
#Deduplication Ratio
$LastSession.BackupStats.DedupRatio 

Hope this helps.
Thanks.

[sbjelkfelt]

Hi,

I'm wondering if it's possible to add what transport mode was used in the 'details' column of the backup report? (or any other column for that matter)
We're mostly interested if nbd is being used instead of direct nfs.

I'm guessing you can get this sort of info from Veeam One, but the standard reports is enough for us.

[PTide]

I'm wondering if it's possible to add what transport mode was used in the 'details' column of the backup report?

Unfortunately currently there is no way how you can create a custom report without using Veeam ONE beside of PowerShell script that will generate a report with desired parameters.

Thank you.

[cdesch]

Hi,
currently in v9 U1 it is only possible to customize the E-Mail subject line in the global or job notification options.
When operating more than 1 B&R Server it is very useful to have i.e. the B&R hostname or other informations like the vCenter in the E-Mail report body.

Thank you,
Chris