How to send Notifications to Telegram

[minh3124]

Hi!
I need veeam One to send Notifications to Telegram, but when I search for Document, I saw Veeam One has just supported MS Team or Slack. Can you help me with this case?

[LickABrick]

Might not be the best option, but if you use Office365 for your mail you can use Power Automate to 'forward' the message using the Telegram API. A quick search returned this: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/custom-m ... akinfieva/ haven't tried this myself but it give you what you want.

[jorgedlcruz]

Hello Ngo,
Veeam ONE supports anything that you can run inside a Script. As you have seen we already have a few examples of notifications to X, for example:

• Microsoft Teams and Slack
• Veeam ONE alerts to ServiceNow

Regarding telegram, I think you can do something like this more or less? I remember one of my colleagues sent me this example; let me ping him.

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$AlarmName=$args[0]
$AlarmState=$args[1]
$ObjectName=$args[2]
 
$Telegramtoken = "MY-TELEGRAM-BOT-ID"
$Telegramchatid = "MY-TELEGRAM-CHAT-ID"
$body = ConvertTo-JSON @{ Text="$(Get-Date) - "  + "$AlarmName" + " alarm goes to " + "$AlarmState" + " on VM: " + "$ObjectName" }
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "https://api.telegram.org/$($Telegramtoken)/sendMessage?chat_id=$($Telegramchatid)&text=$($body)"

These integrations are not officially supported, but we strongly encourage you to play with all of this and provide feedback. We might integrate natively telegram and others in upcoming releases, let's see.

Thanks a lot!

[MarcM]

Hi @minh3124,

In my lab I use the following 2 scripts to send notifications to Teams and to Telegram.

For Telegram you will need to create a Bot (and get the token) and a Group (for the Chat ID). These 2 articles basically explain how to get these:
https://sendpulse.com/knowledge-base/ch ... am-chatbot
https://sean-bradley.medium.com/get-tel ... b575520659

The script is below (make sure to change the token and chatid):

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$AlarmName=$args[0]
$AlarmState=$args[1]
$ObjectName=$args[2]

$Telegramtoken = "bot465874365873245873214A"
$Telegramchatid = "78434624"
$body = ConvertTo-JSON @{ Text="$(Get-Date) - "  + "$AlarmName" + " alarm goes to " + "$AlarmState" + " on VM: " + "$ObjectName" }
[Net.ServicePointManager]::SecurityProtocol = [Net.SecurityProtocolType]::Tls12
Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "https://api.telegram.org/$($Telegramtoken)/sendMessage?chat_id=$($Telegramchatid)&text=$($body)"

In Veeam ONE, under the Actions of the Alarm, you will need to add a "Run Script" action with the following: powershell.exe C:\vone-telegram.ps1 '%1' '%4' '%2'


The script for MS Teams is below. This script uses the same parameters in the "Run Script" action as the other one: powershell.exe C:\vone-teams.ps1 '%1' '%4' '%2'

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$AlarmName=$args[0]
$AlarmState=$args[1]
$ObjectName=$args[2]

$uri = "https://m365x000000.webhook.office.com/webhookb2/b03e017f-8d3c-4cac-aa8e-f3637ddb78a4@de9a57d7-4c99-4gz1-889e-53e668b82e89/IncomingWebhook/0dc9b801ce444b67ae03eda61a0aa725/3644420b-9a1b-4fc7-q9j3-897579569883"

$body = ConvertTo-JSON @{ Text="$(Get-Date)" + "`r`n" + "$AlarmName" + " alarm goes ->" + "$AlarmState" + " on VM: " + "$ObjectName" + "`r`n" }
Invoke-RestMethod -uri $uri -Method Post -body $body -ContentType 'application/json'

If you want to change or add parameters, this KB article has more information: https://www.veeam.com/kb1552

[RomanK]

Hi all,

Thanks for the scripts. I decided to set up the telegram in my lab and probably found a typo.

This line is not working for me

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Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "https://api.telegram.org/$($Telegramtoken)/sendMessage?chat_id=$($Telegramchatid)&text=$($body)"

while this works

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Invoke-RestMethod -Uri "https://api.telegram.org/bot$($Telegramtoken)/sendMessage?chat_id=$($Telegramchatid)&text=$($body)"

The rest is fine.

Thanks.

[MarcM]

Hi @RomanK, thanks for testing! It has been a while since I used it in my lab, because I got too many notifications on my phone

Just to make sure, did you add the "bot part" here in front of the token numbers? $Telegramtoken = "bot465874365873245873214A"

[RomanK]

Hi Marc,

Nice point, of course, I am not. I just copy-pasted provided token.

[minh3124]

Thanks for supported, I had done it

[MarcM]

Hi @minh3124, thanks for the update, good to hear you got things working.

[TomDeSchutter]

As enthousiast as I am, I tried to add these notifications to our installation. (v11.0.0.1379)
Both Teams and Telegram get a popup, which is great. The message both display isn't.

Telegram:
{
"Text": "09/12/2022 10:38:39 - alarm goes to on VM: "
}


Teams:
09/12/2022 10:38:39
alarm goes -> on VM:

As the scripts and $args above seems to work for others, I'm pondering what could be different on my end?? Any thoughts?

Thanks

[MarcM]

Hi Tom,

It looks like the parameters aren't passed (the parameters include the Alarm state, VM name, etc.). Could you check if these are included in the paramaters in the Actions in Veeam ONE (like this: C:\vone-telegram.ps1 '%1' '%4' '%2')?


Thanks,
Marc

[TomDeSchutter]

Forgive me sir, for I am an idiot.
My problem is solved. Thank you!

--Tom

[MarcM]

Glad to hear it's working Tom!