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PRTG Manual: Veeam Backup Job Status Advanced Sensor

The Veeam Backup Job Status Advanced sensor monitors the status of a specific backup job that runs on the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager.

Veeam Backup Job Status Advanced Sensor

For a detailed list and descriptions of the channels that this sensor can show, see section Channel List.

Sensor in Other Languages

Dutch: Veeam Backup Taakstatus Geavanceerd
French: Veeam statut de tâche de sauvegarde avancée
German: Veeam Backupjob-Status (Erweitert)
Japanese: Veeam バックアップジョブステータス詳細
Portuguese: Status da tarefa de backup do Veeam (Avançado)
Russian: Расширенное состояние задания резервного копирования Veeam
Simplified Chinese: Veeam 备份作业状态高级
Spanish: Estado del trabajo de Veeam Backup (avanzado)

Remarks

Consider the following remarks and requirements for this sensor:

Remark	Description
Veeam version	This sensor requires that the Veeam Backup Enterprise Manager 10 or 11 with the Enterprise Plus license are installed.
Credentials	This sensor requires credentials for Veeam.
Backup jobs	This sensor does not support the following backup job types: Tape, Sure Backup, NAS Backup Copy, and Agent Backup Copy.
Veeam agent	This sensor does not support Veeam Agent Backup Jobs if they are managed by a Veeam Agent.
REST API	This sensor only supports version 1.5 of the Representational State Transfer (REST) application programming interface (API).
IPv6	This sensor supports IPv6.
Performance impact	This sensor has a very low performance impact.
Lookups	This sensor uses lookups to determine the status values of one or more channels.
Scanning interval	The minimum scanning interval of this sensor is 1 minute. The recommended scanning interval of this sensor is 5 minutes.
Knowledge Base	Knowledge Base: How can I change the status of my Veeam sensors based on whether a job is scheduled or not?

Basic Sensor Settings

The sensor has the following default tags that are automatically predefined in the sensor's settings when you add the sensor:

veeam
veeambackup
veeamenterprisemanager

For more information about basic sensor settings, see section Sensor Settings.

Veeam Specific

Setting	Description
Job Name	The name of the backup job that this sensor monitors.
Job Type	The type of backup job that this sensor monitors.
Platform	The platform on which the backup job runs.
Job Description	The description of the backup job that this sensor monitors.

Sensor Display

Setting	Description
Primary Channel	Select a channel from the list to define it as the primary channel. In the device tree, PRTG displays the last value of the primary channel below the sensor's name. The available options depend on what channels are available for this sensor. You can set a different primary channel later by clicking below a channel gauge on the sensor's Overview tab.
Graph Type	Define how this sensor shows different channels: Show channels independently (default): Show a graph for each channel. Stack channels on top of each other: Stack channels on top of each other to create a multi-channel graph. This generates a graph that visualizes the different components of your total traffic. You cannot use this option in combination with manual Vertical Axis Scaling (available in the channel settings).
Stack Unit	This setting is only visible if you select Stack channels on top of each other above. Select a unit from the list. PRTG stacks all channels with this unit on top of each other. By default, you cannot exclude single channels from stacking if they use the selected unit. However, there is an advanced procedure to do so.

Setting

Description

Primary Channel

Select a channel from the list to define it as the primary channel. In the device tree, PRTG displays the last value of the primary channel below the sensor's name. The available options depend on what channels are available for this sensor.

You can set a different primary channel later by clicking below a channel gauge on the sensor's Overview tab.

Graph Type

Define how this sensor shows different channels:

Show channels independently (default): Show a graph for each channel.
Stack channels on top of each other: Stack channels on top of each other to create a multi-channel graph. This generates a graph that visualizes the different components of your total traffic.
You cannot use this option in combination with manual Vertical Axis Scaling (available in the channel settings).

Stack Unit

This setting is only visible if you select Stack channels on top of each other above.

Select a unit from the list. PRTG stacks all channels with this unit on top of each other. By default, you cannot exclude single channels from stacking if they use the selected unit. However, there is an advanced procedure to do so.

Debug Options

Setting	Description
Result Handling	Define what PRTG does with the sensor result: Discard result (default): Do not store the sensor result. Store result: Store the last sensor result in the \Logs\sensors subfolder of the PRTG data directory on the probe system. The file name is Result of Sensor [ID].log. This setting is for debugging purposes. PRTG overwrites this file with each scanning interval. This option is not available when the sensor runs on the hosted probe of a PRTG Hosted Monitor instance. In a cluster, PRTG stores the result in the PRTG data directory of the master node.

Setting

Description

Result Handling

Define what PRTG does with the sensor result:

Discard result (default): Do not store the sensor result.

Store result: Store the last sensor result in the \Logs\sensors subfolder of the PRTG data directory on the probe system. The file name is Result of Sensor [ID].log. This setting is for debugging purposes. PRTG overwrites this file with each scanning interval.

This option is not available when the sensor runs on the hosted probe of a PRTG Hosted Monitor instance.

In a cluster, PRTG stores the result in the PRTG data directory of the master node.

Inherited Settings

By default, all of these settings are inherited from objects that are higher in the hierarchy. We recommend that you change them centrally in the root group settings if necessary. To change a setting for this object only, click under the corresponding setting name to disable the inheritance and to display its options.

For more information, see section Inheritance of Settings.

Channel List

Which channels the sensor actually shows might depend on the target device, the available components, and the sensor setup.

Channel	Description
Downtime	In the channel table on the Overview tab, this channel never shows any values. PRTG uses this channel in graphs and reports to show the amount of time in which the sensor was in the Down status
Duration	The duration of the backup job run
Job Scheduled	If the backup job is scheduled Up status: No, Yes. Which status the sensor actually shows depends on the lookup file that you choose in the channel settings. For more information, see the Knowledge Base: How can I change the status of my Veeam sensors based on whether a job is scheduled or not? Down status: No
Last Job Run	The time since the last backup job run
Last Result	The last backup job run status Up status: Successful Warning status: Warning Down status: Failed Unknown status: None This channel is the primary channel by default.
Status	The backup job run status Up status: Starting, Working, Stopped Warning status: Stopping, Pausing, Resuming, Never Started, Postprocessing Unknown status: Idle

KNOWLEDGE BASE

How can I change the status of my Veeam sensors based on whether a job is scheduled or not?

https://kb.paessler.com/en/topic/89136

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