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Veeam Backup & Replication Alarms

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    This section describes predefined alarms for Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure components:

    Enterprise Manager

    Alarm Name

    Event/Condition

    Severity

    Resolve Action

    Description

    Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager connection failure

    State does not equal Connected.

    Error

    Automatic

    Veeam ONE failed to connect to Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager.

     

    Veeam Backup & Replication Server

    Alarm Name

    Event/Condition

    Severity

    Resolve Action

    Description

    Agent backup job state

    Based on event
    VeeamBpEpAgentBackupWorkerSessionErrorEvent

    Error

    Manual

    One or more computers failed to back up successfully.

    Based on event
    VeeamBpEpAgentBackupWorkerSessionWarningEvent

    Warning

    Agent backup policy session state

    Based on event
    VeeamBpEpAgentPolicyWorkerSessionErrorEvent

    Error

    Manual

    One or more computers failed to back up successfully.

    Based on event
    VeeamBpEpAgentPolicyWorkerSessionWarningEvent

    Warning

    Backup Copy job exceeded data transfer window

    Based on event
    VeeamBpCopyJobNetworkWindowExceededEvent

    Error

    Manual

    One or more backup copy jobs exceeded defined window, and data transfer between source and target backup repositories has been stopped.

    Backup Copy job state

    Based on event
    VeeamBpBackupSyncSessionErrorEvent

    Error

    Manual

    One or more VMs could not be successfully copied from the backup repository.

    Based on event
    VeeamBpBackupSyncSessionWarningEvent

    Warning

    Backup job disabled

    Job is disabled for more than 12 hours

    Warning

    Automatic

    Job is in a disabled state for more that allowed time period.

    Backup job failed to create storage snapshot

    Based on event
    VeeamBpJobFailedToCreateStorageSnapshotEvent

    Warning

    Manual

    Integrated storage failed to create storage snapshot initiated by Veeam backup job.

    Backup job state

    Based on event
    VeeamBpBackupSessionErrorEvent

    Error

    Manual

    One or more VMs failed to back up successfully.

    Based on event
    VeeamBpBackupSessionWarningEvent

    Warning

    Backup to tape job status

    Based on event
    VeeamBpFileTapeSessionErrorEvent

    Error

    Manual

    One or more VMs failed to be transferred to the tape device.

    Based on event
    VeeamBpVmTapeSessionErrorEvent

    Error

    Based on event
    VeeamBpFileTapeSessionWarningEvent

    Warning

    Based on event
    VeeamBpVmTapeSessionWarningEvent

    Warning

    File copy job state

    Based on event
    VeeamBpCopySessionWarningEvent

    Warning

    Manual

    One or more files failed to be transferred to the destination folder.

    Based on event
    VeeamBpCopySessionErrorEvent

    Error

    Job exceeded backup window

    Based on event
    VeeamBpJobWindowExceededEvent

    Error

    Manual

    One or more jobs exceeded allowed backup window and has been terminated.

    License expiration date

    Based on event
    VeeamBackupServerLicenseExpiration

    Warning

    Automatic

    Veeam Backup & Replication license expired.

    Based on event
    VeeamBackupServerLicenseChanged

    Resolve

    Based on event
    VeeamBackupServerLicenseExpirationResolve

    Resolve

    Max allowed job duration

    Job duration is more than 480 minutes

    Error

    Manual

    Job has exceeded its allowed execution time.

    Job duration is more than 120 minutes

    Warning

    Quick Migration job state

    Based on event
    VeeamBpQMigrationSessionWarningEvent

    Warning

    Manual

    One or more VMs failed to migrate to another host.

    Based on event
    VeeamBpQMigrationSessionErrorEvent

    Error

    Replication job state

    Based on event
    VeeamBpRepSessionErrorEvent

    Error

    Manual

    One or more VMs failed to replicate successfully.

    Based on event
    VeeamBpRepSessionWarningEvent

    Warning

    Restore activity

    Based on event
    290 Veeam MP

    Information

    Automatic

    Restore session sterted.

    Support expiration date

    Based on event
    VeeamBackupServerLicenseSupportExpiration

    Warning

    Automatic

    Veeam Backup & Replication prepaid support contract expired.

    Based on event
    VeeamBackupServerLicenseChanged

    Resolve

    Based on event
    VeeamBackupServerLicenseSupportExpirationResolved

    Resolve

    SureBackup job state

    Based on event
    VeeamBpSbSessionErrorEvent

    Error

    Manual

    One or more VMs could not be successfully verified.

    Based on event
    VeeamBpSbSessionWarningEvent

    Warning

    Veeam Backup & Replication Server connection failure

    State does not equal Connected

    Error

    Automatic

    Connection to Veeam Backup & Replication server failed.

    Veeam Broker Service state

    Based on event
    VeeamBackupServerBrokerServiceDownEvent

    Warning

    Automatic

    Veeam Broker Service that interacts with virtual infrastructure to collect and cache its topology is not started and not working properly.

    Based on event
    VeeamBackupServerBrokerServiceDownEvent

    Resolve

    Based on event
    VeeamBackupServerBrokerServiceDownEvent

    Resolve

     

    Repository

    Alarm Name

    Event/Condition

    Severity

    Resolve Action

    Description

    Backup repository connection failure

    State equals Not accessible for more than 5 minutes

    Error

    Automatic

    Veeam Backup & Replication server lost connection to the backup repository.

    State equals Warning for more than 5 minutes

    Warning

    Backup repository free space

    Free space is below 5%

    Error

    Automatic

    Backup repository is low on free space.

    Free space is below 10%

    Warning

    Backup repository version is out-of-date

    Component version mismatch

    Warning

    Automatic

    Veeam backup repository version does not match the version of Veeam Backup & Replication server.

     

    Proxy

    Alarm Name

    Event/Condition

    Severity

    Resolve Action

    Description

    Backup proxy connection failure

    State does not equal Accessible for more than 5 minutes

    Error

    Automatic

    Veeam Backup & Replication server lost connection to the proxy server.

    Backup proxy version is out-of-date

    Component version mismatch

    Warning

    Automatic

    Veeam backup proxy version does not match the version of Veeam Backup & Replication server.

     

    WAN Accelerator

    Alarm Name

    Event/Condition

    Severity

    Resolve Action

    Description

    WAN accelerator connection state

    State does not equal Accessible for more than 5 minutes

    Error

    Automatic

    Veeam Backup & Replication server lost connection to the WAN accelerator

    WAN accelerator version is out-of-date

    Component version mismatch

    Warning

    Automatic

    Veeam WAN accelerator version does not match the version of Veeam Backup & Replication server.

     

    Tape Server

    Alarm Name

    Event/Condition

    Severity

    Resolve Action

    Description

    Tape server connection state

    State does not equal Accessible for more than 5 minutes

    Error

    Automatic

    Veeam Backup & Replication server lost connection to the tape server.

    Tape server version is out-of-date

    Component version mismatch

    Warning

    Automatic

    Veeam tape server version does not match the version of Veeam Backup & Replication server.

     

    Cloud Repository

    Alarm Name

    Event/Condition

    Severity

    Resolve Action

    Description

    Cloud repository free space

    Free space is below 10%

    Warning

    Automatic

    Cloud repository is low on available free space.

    Free space is below 5%

    Error

    Cloud repository lease expiration date

    14 days to lease expiration

    Warning

    Automatic

    Cloud repository lease time is about to expire.

    0 days to lease expiration

    Error

    VM backups in cloud repository

    Number of stored VMs is above the specified threshold

    Warning

    Automatic

    Number of VMs stored in the cloud repository is above the defined threshold.

     

    Cloud Gateway

    Alarm Name

    Event/Condition

    Severity

    Resolve Action

    Description

    Cloud gateway connection state

    State does not equal Accessible for more than 5 minutes

    Error

    Automatic

    Veeam Backup & Replication server lost connection to the cloud gateway.

    Cloud gateway version is out-of-date

    Component version mismatch

    Warning

    Automatic

    Veeam cloud gateway version does not match the version of Veeam Backup & Replication server.

    Intelligent Diagnostics

    List of intelligent diagnostics alarms depends on the set of installed signatures. For details, see Veeam Intelligent Diagnostics.

     

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