Scenario Veritas Backup Exec is widely used for the backup of physical machines through local installed agents both on Windows and Linux hosts. It also supports application backup for Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint and several different Database engines, with the option of a granular application data restore. The product additionally supports virtual backup through Hyper-V and…
Read MoreScenario Veeam Backup & Replication product is widely used for backuping virtual machines, primary hosted on VMware vSphere infrastructure. It could also backup physical machines through dedicated agents. It’s very important to keep the backup status monitored: it would be nice to get the backup status through the Icinga2 agent in an easy way. PowerShell…
Read MoreVeeam is a widely used and well-known backup system. A customer recently asked me if he could check on the operation of his Veeam-based backup system by verifying the Windows event log, since the standard checks used within the community did not provide him with the current status of his Veeam infrastructure. This use case…
Read MoreDuring migrations from NetEye 3 to NetEye 4, I often run into really outdated monitoring checks in the Windows world, where the last update was more than 10 years ago… and whose logic is therefore now completely obsolete! The time for change is now!!! In the last year Icinga released a really interesting project that…
Read MoreWhen implementing monitoring with Icinga2 you will soon reach the point where you will have to install Agents in order to monitor your infrastructure in-depth. Here the Icinga2 Agent provides concepts to access information about and the properties of an operating system over a secure remote connection. In an enterprise environment consisting of thousands of…
Read MoreWith the introduction of PowerShell there have been opened a lot of doors for a useful Windows monitoring.
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