Veeam Monitoring

m.de-blasi · June 25, 2020, 9:15am

Englisch:
In the Veeam console we activated status information under “Storage”> “Notifications”.
The status information is output as an attribute in the vSphere.
Can you monitor this if the field is not filled or if the backup is older than 24 hours?

Deutsch:
In der Veeam Konsole haben wir unter “Storage” > “Notifications” Statusinformationen aktiviert.
Die Statusinformationen werden im vSphere als Attribut ausgegeben.
Kann man dies Monitoren, wenn das Feld nicht gefüllt ist oder wenn das Backup älter als 24 Stunden alt ist?

ttr · June 25, 2020, 10:36am

You can monitor Veeam itself: https://exchange.checkmk.com/p/veeamagent

This will add one service per backup job to Veeam server and to any VM in that job. This script might easily be extended to support Replication and Copy jobs.

Regards,
Tom.

stalmon · June 25, 2020, 11:28am

The checkmk agent for Windows has a plugin available to get the backup status directly from veeam.
(veeam_backup_status.ps1)

If you enable this plugin in your agent config or copy the plugin to a directory where all plugins are executed, your checkmk server will get all the informations directly from veeam.

(the retry-bug that was the reason for the veeamagent-script at exchange.checkmk.com is fixed in the official plugin since November 2015 [werk #2726], so you can now use the official shipped plugin)

With the plugin you will get

a check for each backup job (on the veeam host in checkmk) - https://checkmk.com/cms_check_veeam_jobs.html
piggyback data that can give you details for each VM, added through piggyback data to all corresponding server VMs (same name, or defined through piggyback hostname translation) https://checkmk.com/cms_check_veeam_client.html

Should give you all data that you need.

m.de-blasi · June 25, 2020, 2:15pm

How do I install the plugin Veeam: Client Backup?
We use the Raw 1.6.0p9

stalmon · June 25, 2020, 2:54pm

On your veeam server, the plugin is in the default plugin folder of the agent:

C:\Program Files (x86)\checkmk\service\plugins

In the default config, no plugin in this directory is executed.

You can copy the plugin to the local plugin directory
C:\ProgramData\checkmk\agent\plugins

or you can enable the veeam plugin in your check_mk.user.yml with the following config (benefit: if the shipped plugin is updated, it will automatically use the updated plugin, you do not need to copy it again)

plugins:

  execution:
    - pattern     : '$BUILTIN_PLUGINS_PATH$\veeam_backup_status.ps1'
      timeout     : 60
      run         : yes

andreas-doehler · June 25, 2020, 3:20pm

I would also recommend this way
I don’t know if @SergejKipnis has this also on his agenda as the preferred way.

stalmon · June 25, 2020, 3:21pm

depending on the size and performance of your Veeam infrastructure, getting all data through the powershell plugin can take some time.

If you have a normal default check interval of 1 minute, you should maybe add an “Normal check interval for service checks”-Rule for the “Check_MK$” service on your backup host in the monitoring config, to only query the veeam host every 2 or 5 minutes

stalmon · June 25, 2020, 3:24pm

yes - it is also my personal preferred way.

(but the official agent bakery does a copy of the plugins to the local folder instead of just adding it to the config, so maybe there are reasons for this)

andreas-doehler · June 25, 2020, 3:28pm

The reason is to stay compatible with the rules and deployment scripts from 1.5
We (as the users) need to find some time that this can be discussed with Sergej if a change is possible and doable.
I would prefer that inside the “Programdata” plugins folder are only different plugins then the default plugins.

m.de-blasi · June 26, 2020, 1:52pm

that means if the latest Windows Agent is installed. Then the Veeam plugin is automatically installed? And you just have to adjust the parameters of the Veeam rules. Is that correct?

m.de-blasi · June 26, 2020, 2:25pm

The mkp File copy in the folder: C:\ProgramData\checkmk\agent\plugins
right?

andreas-doehler · June 26, 2020, 8:35pm

This is only if you configure the plugin the way that @stalmon said.

No mkp files do nothing on your target system. It installs only new or modified versions on your monitoring system. A modified plugin in only deployed to your monitored systems with a newer version if you use the enterprise edition with the agent bakery.

m.de-blasi · July 2, 2020, 12:21pm

@andreas-doehler

Is it possible to use the Veeam plugin without Enterprise Edition?

@stalmon Where do I change the configuration? To use the Veeam plugin?

simon-mueller · July 4, 2020, 2:29pm

Yes, it works with all eiditions.

andreas-doehler · July 6, 2020, 6:45am

You have two options.
1: copy the “veeam_backup_status.ps1” from “C:\Program Files (x86)\checkmk\service\plugins” to “C:\ProgramData\checkmk\agent\plugins” - that’s all
2: change only the file “C:\ProgramData\checkmk\agent\check_mk.user.yml” inside the section “plugins” to execute the “veeam_backup_status.ps1” directly from the “program files” directory

plugins:
  enabled: true
  execution:
    - pattern     : '$BUILTIN_PLUGINS_PATH$\veeam_backup_status.ps1'
      async       : yes
      run         : yes

For option 1 it would also be good to modify the yml file that the plugin is executed asynchronous or with cache time if you want.

system · August 5, 2020, 4:45pm

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