Performing Maintenance Tasks

Users with Host Administrator permissions can perform the following maintenance tasks:

• Start, stop and restart Veeam services
• Restart Veeam Software Appliance
• Import and export configuration files
• View and export Veeam Host Management events
• Download logs
• Generate new certificate for the Veeam Host Management web UI

Managing Veeam Services

You can monitor and manage Veeam services in the Veeam Host Management web UI. To view the list of the Veeam services, click Logs and Services in the main menu. Then, click on the Services tab.

For more information, see Enterprise Manager Components.

Restarting Server

You can restart Veeam Software Appliance in the Veeam Host Management web UI or TUI.

If you use the Veeam Host Management web UI, perform the following steps:

1. In the main menu, click Logs and Services.
2. On the Host Configuration tab, click Restart now.

If you use the Veeam Host Management TUI, in the main menu, select Reboot system and press [Enter].

Managing Configuration Files

You can export and import required configuration files to customize Veeam Software Appliance configuration. To do this, perform the following steps in the Veeam Host Management web UI:

1. In the main menu, click Logs and Services > Host Configuration.
2. In the Configuration Files section, select the file and click Import.
3. After you edit the file and update configuration parameters, click Export to upload the updated file. To apply new configuration, you may need to restart the service or the server.

Viewing Events

You can monitor system, security, configuration and other types of events occurred on the Veeam Software Appliance. To view the list of events, click Logs and Services in the main menu. Then, click on the Events tab.

To export all events in the CSV format, click Export.

Downloading Logs

For troubleshooting, you can download all Veeam logs as an archive file. To do this, perform the following steps in the Veeam Host Management web UI:

1. In the main menu, click Logs and Services > Logs.
2. Click Create support logs bundle.
3. To include configuration database file to the archive, select the Include configuration database check box.
4. Click OK.
5. When the archive is prepared, click Download.
6. After you download the archive, you can delete it from the server. To do this, click Remove.

Generating Certificates

In the Veeam Host Management TUI, you can generate new certificate for the Veeam Host Management web UI. To do this, perform the following steps:

1. In the main menu, select Remote access configuration.
2. Press [F1] to generate new certificate. The web service will be restarted.