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This section describes predefined alarms for Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure components.
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 | State of an agent backup job equals Warning. | Warning | Automatic | One or more computers failed to back up successfully. |
State of an agent backup job equals Failed. | Error | |||
Agent backup policy session state | State of a backup policy session equals Warning. | Warning | Automatic | One or more computers failed to back up successfully. |
State of a backup policy session equals Failed. | Error | |||
Backup Copy Job exceeded data transfer window | Based on event | 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 | State of an backup copy job equals Warning. | Warning | Automatic | One or more objects could not be successfully copied from the backup repository. |
State of an backup copy job equals Failed. | Error | |||
Backup Copy RPO | Restore point copy is missing according to job schedule. | Error | Automatic | One or more backups was not successfully copied to the secondary repository within the defined RPO interval. |
Job is disabled for more than 12 hours. | Warning | Automatic | Job stays in the disabled state for a longer time than configured in the alarm threshold. | |
Backup job failed to create storage snapshot | Based on event | Warning | Manual | Integrated storage failed to create storage snapshot initiated by Veeam backup job. |
Backup job state | State of a backup job equals Warning. | Warning | Automatic | Backup job reported either an error or a warning. |
State of a backup job equals Failed. | Error | |||
State of a Nutanix backup job equals Warning. | Warning | |||
State of a Nutanix backup job equals Failed. | Error | |||
VM CDP SLA Compliance | SLA decreases to 95% for 5 minutes | Warning | Automatic | SLA % of one or more VMs processed by CDP policy has dropped below threshold. |
SLA decreases to 75% for 5 minutes | Error | |||
Cloud backup policy session state | Status of a cloud backup policy session equals Warning. | Warning | Automatic | Policy finished with warning or error. |
Status of a cloud backup policy session equals Error. | Error | |||
NAS Backup job state | State of a file-level backup job equals Warning. | Warning | Automatic | One or more file sources failed to back up successfully. |
State of a file-level backup job equals Failed. | Error | |||
File copy job state | State of a file copy job equals Warning. | Warning | Manual | One or more files failed to be transferred to the destination folder. |
State of a file copy job equals Failed. | Error | |||
Job exceeded backup window | Based on event | Error | Manual | One or more jobs exceeded allowed backup window and has been terminated. |
License expiration date | Based on event | Warning | Automatic | Veeam Backup & Replication license expired. |
Based on event | Resolve | |||
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Maximum allowed job duration | Job duration is more than 480 minutes. | Error | Manual | Job has exceeded its maximum allowed execution time. |
Job duration is more than 120 minutes. | Warning | |||
Plug-in backup data collection failure | Plug-in backup data collection failed due to connection loss for more than 5 minutes. | Error | Automatic | Veeam ONE server failed to collect plug-in backup data provided by Veeam Backup & Replication. |
Quick Migration job state | Based on event | Warning | Automatic | One or more VMs failed to migrate to another host. |
Based on event | Error | |||
Replication job state | State of a replication job equals Warning. | Warning | Automatic | One or more VMs failed to replicate successfully. |
State of a replication job equals Failed. | Error | |||
Restore activity | Based on event | Information | Automatic | Restore session initiated. |
Support expiration date | Based on event | Warning | Automatic | Veeam Backup & Replication prepaid support contract expired. |
Based on event | Resolve | |||
Based on event | Resolve | |||
SureBackup job state | State of a SureBackup job equals Warning. | Warning | Automatic | One or more VMs could not be successfully verified. |
State of a SureBackup job equals Failed. | Error | |||
Suspicious incremental backup size | One of 3 last job increment sizes is above 150% of configured threshold. | Warning | Automatic | The size of the recently created incremental restore point is significantly different from the previously created ones. |
One of 3 last job increment sizes is above 200% of configured threshold. | Error | |||
One of 3 last job increment sizes is below 80% of configured threshold. | Warning | |||
One of 3 last job increment sizes is below 70% of configured threshold. | Error | |||
Tape job state | Status of the file to tape backup job equals Warning. | Warning | Manual | One or more VMs or files failed to be transferred to the tape device. |
Status of the file to tape backup job equals Failed. | Error | |||
Status of the backup to tape job equals Warning. | Warning | |||
Status of the backup to tape job equals Failed. | Error | |||
Database log backup job state | Microsoft SQL server log backup job completed with warning | Warning | Automatic | Microsoft SQL Database or Oracle Database logs have not been backed up successfully. |
Microsoft SQL server log backup job failed | Error | |||
Oracle log backup job completed with warning | Warning | |||
Oracle log backup job failed | Error | |||
Unusual job duration | Job duration is above 150% of average time interval | Warning | Automatic | Job duration is above usual values among the set of job sessions |
Job duration is above 200% of average time interval | Error | |||
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 | 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 | Resolve | |||
Based on event | Resolve |
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 Partially accessible 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. |
Backup repository ReFS data integrity issue | Based on event | Warning | Manual | ReFS-formatted volume of a backup repository experienced a data integrity issue. |
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Immutability state | Immutability is disabled. | Warning | Automatic | The immutability setting is turned off on one or several backup repositories or scale-out backup repository extents. |
Immutability change tracking | Based on event | Warning | Manual | The configured immutability period has been changed on one or several backup repositories or scale-out backup repository extents. |
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Alarm Name | Event/Condition | Severity | Resolve Action | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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. |
Proxy version is out-of-date | Component version mismatch. | Warning | Automatic | Veeam proxy version does not match the version of Veeam Backup & Replication server. |
CDP proxy cache usage | CDP cache usage is above 50% | Warning | Automatic | CDP proxy cache usage has reached the configured threshold. |
CDP cache usage is above 75% | Error |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
Alarm Name | Event/Condition | Severity | Resolve Action | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Computer with no backup | No computer backups were created for more than 24 hours | Warning | Automatic | This computer has not been backed up within the configured RPO (Recovery Point Objective)period. |
List of intelligent diagnostics alarms depends on the set of installed signatures. For details, see Veeam Intelligent Diagnostics.