---
title: "Health Check Job Started"
description: "Sent when a new health check job session starts. For more information, see Maintenance Settings. Event ID: 41700 Event message details: Health check session <JobName> has been started Severity: Info"
canonical: "https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/vbr/events/event_41700.html"
breadcrumb: "Event Reference > Backup > General Operations > Health Check Job Started"
dateModified: "2026-10-01"
---

# Health Check Job Started

Sent when a new health check job session starts. For more information, see [Maintenance Settings](https://helpcenter.veeam.com/docs/backup/vsphere/backup_job_advanced_maintenance_vm.html).

## General Information

**Event ID**: 41700

**Event message details**: Health check session `<JobName>` has been started

**Severity**: Info

## Parameters

<table class="Blue_Table">
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <th>
      <p>Parameter Name</p>
    </th>
    <th>
      <p>Description</p>
    </th>
    <th>
      <p>Example</p>
    </th>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p><span class="T_Filenames">JobSessionID</span></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>Job session ID.</p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><span class="T_Filenames">JobSessionID="e73fc5d1-47bf-46e5-ac7a-ea7050b831a7"</span></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p><span class="T_Filenames">JobID</span></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>Job ID.</p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><span class="T_Filenames">JobID="cb16e947-5198-2d40-9571-5d7c186cd411"</span></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p><span class="T_Filenames">JobType</span></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>Job type.</p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><span class="T_Filenames">JobType="76"</span></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p><span class="T_Filenames">Platform</span></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>Platform type.</p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><span class="T_Filenames">Platform="4"</span></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p><span class="T_Filenames">Flags</span></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p>Defines whether the job was started by a user.</p>
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><span class="T_Filenames">Flags="0"</span></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p><span class="T_Filenames">SourceType</span></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      Job source type.
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><span class="T_Filenames">SourceType="5"</span></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p><span class="T_Filenames">VbrHostName</span></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      Backup server name. Can be a DNS name, an FQDN or an IP address.
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><span class="T_Filenames">VbrHostName="vbrsrv01.tech.local"</span></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p><span class="T_Filenames">VbrVersion</span></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      Veeam Backup & Replication version.
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><span class="T_Filenames">VbrVersion="13.1.0.411"</span></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p><span class="T_Filenames">Version</span></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      Event version (service parameter).
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><span class="T_Filenames">Version="1"</span></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr style="vertical-align:top">
    <td>
      <p><span class="T_Filenames">Description</span></p>
    </td>
    <td>
      Event message details.
    </td>
    <td>
      <p><span class="T_Filenames">Description="Health check session backup_weekly has been started."</span></p>
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>

## Syslog Message Example

```
1 2026-07-25T12:36:07.299849+01:00 VBRSRV01 Veeam_MP - - [origin enterpriseId="31023"] [categoryId=0 instanceId=41700 JobSessionID="e73fc5d1-47bf-46e5-ac7a-ea7050b831a7" JobID="cb16e947-5198-2d40-9571-5d7c186cd411" JobType="76" Platform="4" Flags="0" SourceType="5" VbrHostName="vbrsrv01.tech.local" VbrVersion="13.1.0.411" Version="1" Description="Health check session backup_weekly has been started."]
```