Veeam Backup & Replication Alarms
This section describes predefined alarms for Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure components.
Alarm Name | Event/Condition | Severity | Resolve Action | Description |
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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 |
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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 | |||
Application backup policy state | State of a backup policy session equals Warning. | Warning | Automatic | One or more application databases 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. |
Backup Server security & compliance state | Backup security & compliance state is not implemented. | Error | Automatic | Security & compliance check finished with warning or error. |
Backup security & compliance state is unable to detect. | Warning | |||
Backup security & compliance state is not checked. | Warning | |||
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 | |||
CDP SLA Compliance | SLA decreases to 95% for 5 minutes. | Warning | Automatic | SLA % of one or more workloads 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 | |||
File backup job state | State of a file backup job equals Warning. | Warning | Automatic | File backup job finished with warning or error. |
State of a file 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. |
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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 | |||
Object storage backup job state | Object storage backup job equals failed. | Error | Automatic | One or more unstructured data items in the object storage backup were not successfully backed up. |
Object storage backup job equals warning. | Warning | |||
Potential malware in backups | One or more files detected as infected with malware. | Error | Automatic | One or more files with suspicious or infected malware detection. |
One or more files detected with potential suspicious malware infection. | 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. |
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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. |
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Support expiration date | Based on event | Warning | Automatic | Veeam Backup & Replication prepaid support contract expired. |
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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 | |||
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. For Oracle RMAN backup jobs, Veeam ONE analyzes only the differential level 1 backups. | |
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, computers or unstructured data items 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 | Database transaction logs have not been backed up successfully. |
Microsoft SQL server log backup job failed. | Error | |||
Oracle Database log backup job completed with warning. | Warning | |||
Oracle Database log backup job failed. | Error | |||
PostgreSQL log backup job completed with warning. | Warning | |||
PostgreSQL log backup job failed. | Error | |||
Enterprise application log backup job completed with warning. | Warning | |||
Enterprise application 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. |
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Veeam malware detection activity state | Disabled malware detection. | Error | Automatic | This event is triggered when inline entropy or file system activity analysis settings are disabled. |
Veeam malware detection exclusions change tracking | Based on event | Error | Manual | A workload was added to or removed from the malware detection exclusions list. |
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Veeam malware detection change tracking | Based on event | Warning | Manual | Events are triggered when malware scan settings are changed. |
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Alarm Name | Event/Condition | Severity | Resolve Action | Description |
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Backup repository connection failure | State equals Not accessible for more than 5 minutes. | Error | Automatic | Veeam Backup & Replication server lost connection to the Microsoft Windows or Linux Hardened 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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Scale-out backup repository data transfer session state | Scale-out backup repository data transfer session completed with warning. | Warning | Automatic | Scale-out backup repository offload, download, archiving or retrieval data transfer session finished with warning or failed. |
Scale-out backup repository data transfer session failed. | Error |
Alarm Name | Event/Condition | Severity | Resolve Action | Description |
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Backup proxy connection failure | State does not equal Accessible for more than 5 minutes. | Error | Automatic | Veeam Backup & Replication server lost connection to the backup 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. |
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
Enterprise Application
Alarm Name | Event/Condition | Severity | Resolve Action | Description |
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Application with no recent data backup sessions | No backup jobs protecting application database finished successfully or with warnings for more than 24 hours. | Warning | Automatic | One or several databases on an application server or application cluster are not protected with a backup job that finished successfully or with warnings 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.