Monitor Backups - Last backup for VM
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Hi,
Do you already have a monitoring solution? If not, then let me ask internally, I think we've been asked that in the past
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Adding @julien-f in the loop
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@olivierlambert
We are using PRTG as monitoring system. Our "old" backup-system is connected through the API to:- List VMs that do not have the "nobackup-flag"
- Check if backup with age <24h is available
- Check if offsite-backup with age <48h is available
--> Sends number of VMs with and without backups as XML-output
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@KPS Have you checked our Nagios plugin?
It got some major improvements last release (cf 5.77 blogpost).
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If I get it correctly, @KPS doesn't use Nagios
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You can use Vinchin Backup & Recovery to monitor VM backup job in real time. There is a graphical interface presenting the status of the whole backup system.
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@miller1
Vinchin is looking great at the first look and offers some great features like LAN-free-backup, that can be A LOT faster, than the "classical" approach and Instant-Recover.But in other points it is VERY limited and IMHO not enterprise-ready:
- No smart-backups! You have to define manually which VM is backed up in which job - not by Tag, name, state, etc.
- Absolutely NO API, no Syslog, no real reporting - only basic mail notifications
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@miller1 Just first post to talk specifically about Vinchin
This looks a bit spammy. If you want to promote it, it would be better to be more transparent 
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> xo-cli --list-commands backupNg.getLogs backupNg.getLogs [after=<number|string>] [before=<number|string>] [limit=<number>] *=<unknown type> -
I suppose that answer your requirement @KPS ?
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@olivierlambert
I will try to build something with that base. The problem is, that I first need a list of the VMs to check for every VM the logs about the last successful backup. -
@KPS You can use
xo-cli --list-objects type=VM.Also you should only get the backup logs once and join with the VM list, because
backupNg.getLogsis heavy.
