Veeam ONE and Automation Services

To be able to use the steps below, make sure you are using Veeam Availability Suite 8.x or 9.x.

VM with no backup

1. Create VM backup alarm in Veeam ONE via Alarms Management tab.
2. Define the required RPO and assign the alarm.
3. In the Post alarm actions specify a batch file to trigger a backup PowerShell script.
4. When the alarm is triggered, the corresponding PowerShell script will create a quick backup of the VM.

If you don't have any VMs added to the backup jobs, then you can write a PowerShell script that will create a job for the VM and then run it.

Terminate job after X hours

1. Create backup alarm and select jobs you want to monitor.
2. Define the maximum duration.
3. In the post alarm actions specify a batch file to trigger a backup PowerShell script.
4. The PowerShell script can be configured to perform one of the following actions:

Delete orphaned VM snapshots

1. Use one of the predefined VM snapshot alarms (snapshot size or snapshot age).
2. In the post alarm actions specify a batch file to trigger a backup PowerCLI script which will try to consolidate all VM snapshots.

You can even specify the name of the snapshots you want to consolidate in the PowerCLI script. 

Automated VM failover

1. Detect failed VMs/hosts/datastores via one of the predefined alarms in Veeam ONE (for example, VM power state, VM Tools state etc.).
2. In the post alarm actions specify a batch file to trigger a backup PowerShell script.
3. To make sure it is not a network glitch run additional verifications within the PowerCLI/PowerShell script.
4. Once all verifications are performed create a failover plan in Veeam backup console and then run it.
VM tags in Veeam ONE and Veeam B&R

1. Open Veeam ONE Business View and create the required categories/groups for automatic categorization rules.
2. Create categorization rule or dynamic group via Business View. See the online help center web page for more info > Configuring Categorization Rules for v.8 and v.9.
3. Configure Veeam ONE to write VM Tags to the vCenter Server > Configuring Options for v.8 and v.9.
4. Verify Veeam ONE Reporter collection job schedule (this job is responsible for writing VM tags) > Scheduling Data Collection for v.8 and v.9.
5. Open Veeam Backup console and start using VM tags as a source for your backup and replication jobs.

Receive alarms via text message

1. Navigate to any alarm you would like to configure this action for.
2. Set Send email notifications as post alarm action.
3. Specify your cell phone number in the format described below. The 10-digit number should be your cell phone number.
 

Alltel   [10-digit phone number]@message.alltel.com
Example: 1234567890@message.alltel.com

AT&T (formerly Cingular)   [10-digit phone number]@txt.att.net
[10-digit phone number]@mms.att.net (MMS)
[10-digit phone number]@cingularme.com
Example: 1234567890@txt.att.net

Boost Mobile   [10-digit phone number]@myboostmobile.com
Example: 1234567890@myboostmobile.com

Nextel (now Sprint Nextel)   [10-digit telephone number]@messaging.nextel.com
Example: 1234567890@messaging.nextel.com

Sprint PCS (now Sprint Nextel)   [10-digit phone number]@messaging.sprintpcs.com
[10-digit phone number]@pm.sprint.com (MMS)
Example: 1234567890@messaging.sprintpcs.com

T-Mobile   [10-digit phone number]@tmomail.net
Example: 1234567890@tmomail.net

US Cellular   [10-digit phone number]email.uscc.net (SMS)
[10-digit phone number]@mms.uscc.net (MMS)
Example: 1234567890@email.uscc.net

Verizon   [10-digit phone number]@vtext.com
[10-digit phone number]@vzwpix.com (MMS)
Example: 1234567890@vtext.com

Virgin Mobile USA   [10-digit phone number]@vmobl.com
Example: 1234567890@vmobl.com

Audible alarms

1. Set a batch script as an action item for the alarm 
2. Use “psexec” to execute another *.bat file to play an audio file on any server

Create your OWN alarms for Veeam B&R

1. Navigate to Alarm Management tab.
2. Select Veeam B&R node as the alarm type.
3. Click to create new alarm and select Event as an alarm trigger.
4. Choose any alarm from the list below triggered by Veeam B&R.
 

Event ID   Event Name

23010   Job created
23050   Job modified
23090   Job deleted
23110   Job objects added
32120   Job objects deleted
23130   Job objects modified
23210   SureBackup job created
23220   SureBackup job modified
23230   SureBackup job deleted
23310   SureBackup objects added
23320   SureBackup objects deleted
23330   SureBackup objects modified
110   Backup job started
190   Backup job finished
150   Backup task finished
114   Tape backup job started
194   Tape backup job finished
210   Restore session started
250   Restore vSphere task finished
251   Restore Hyper-V task finished
290   Restore session finished
310   SureBackup job started
350   SureBackup vSphere verification task finished
351   SureBackup vSphere  validation task finished
360   SureBackup Hyper-V verification task finished
361   SureBackup Hyper-V validation task finished
390   SureBackup job finished
410   Backup copy job started
450   Backup copy task finished
490   Backup copy job finished
510   File copy job started
590   File copy job finished
512   VM copy job started
592   VM copy job finished
10010   Restore point created
10050   Restore point removed
10090   Restore point updated
10014   Tape restore point created
20114   Tape updated
21210   Proxy server established connection
21214   Proxy server lost connection
21220   Repository server established connection
21224   Repository server lost connection
21230   WAN accelerator established connection
21234   WAN accelerator lost connection
24010   License installed
24020   License expiring
24022   License evaluation expiring
24030   License expired
24040   License support expiring
24050   License support expired
23410   Second destination job has been assigned
23420   Second destination job has been removed
610   Quick migration job has been finished

Before you implement any of the suggested solution in production, use these script examples in your test environment and make sure you adapt them to your needs.