Monitoring and alerts for Azure Backup
Great news for those who are already using or planning to use Azure Backup. Microsoft released in the preview function, which was the leader of the wish list of users - monitoring and notification of the status of backup tasks.
Now you will have a single console for viewing the status of tasks in your Recovery Services Vault, and the ability to notify by mail for events of interest to you. Some technical details under the cut.
Since the monitoring and notification functionality is in the preview, to activate it you need:
As soon as the registration status of the function changes to Registered, you can proceed to the tests.
For any backup system it is very important to know how your backups went. Without this information, you cannot say with certainty that your infrastructure is secure and reliable. It is not by chance that this community functionality was expected most of all. You, in any case, need this data. The only question is how you get them - handicraft tools or standard tools.
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The problem with Azure Backup was that you had to go into tricks to get this information. On the portal, you had to go to the properties of each individual server to get information about its backups. The more servers you have, the less you are satisfied with this situation. This could be bypassed, but I wanted a quality solution from Microsoft. Now it is. You have access to a single Jobs console to view the status of all tasks in the Recovery Services Vault .
Another nice innovation, which is available in preview mode, is email alerts about events related to backup tasks. It is useful when you can view the status of all tasks in a single console, but getting information about problems should be automated. The Alerts and Events snap-in gives you the ability to configure which types of events you want to know automatically. In addition, you can select the mode of receiving this information - notification of each individual problem or an hourly digest. Depending on whether you are viewing these letters yourself or integrating these alerts with your ITSM system, you can choose a more comfortable option for you.
Now you will have a single console for viewing the status of tasks in your Recovery Services Vault, and the ability to notify by mail for events of interest to you. Some technical details under the cut.
We connect function
Since the monitoring and notification functionality is in the preview, to activate it you need:
- Register a provider (if you have not yet used other feature previews from this category):
Register-AzureRmProvider –ProviderNamespace Microsoft.RecoveryServices - Register the function itself (you will have to wait for some time while your activation request is completed):
Register-AzureRmProviderFeature -FeatureName MABAlertingFeature –ProviderNamespace Microsoft.RecoveryServices
As soon as the registration status of the function changes to Registered, you can proceed to the tests.
Monitoring
For any backup system it is very important to know how your backups went. Without this information, you cannot say with certainty that your infrastructure is secure and reliable. It is not by chance that this community functionality was expected most of all. You, in any case, need this data. The only question is how you get them - handicraft tools or standard tools.
')
The problem with Azure Backup was that you had to go into tricks to get this information. On the portal, you had to go to the properties of each individual server to get information about its backups. The more servers you have, the less you are satisfied with this situation. This could be bypassed, but I wanted a quality solution from Microsoft. Now it is. You have access to a single Jobs console to view the status of all tasks in the Recovery Services Vault .
Alerts
Another nice innovation, which is available in preview mode, is email alerts about events related to backup tasks. It is useful when you can view the status of all tasks in a single console, but getting information about problems should be automated. The Alerts and Events snap-in gives you the ability to configure which types of events you want to know automatically. In addition, you can select the mode of receiving this information - notification of each individual problem or an hourly digest. Depending on whether you are viewing these letters yourself or integrating these alerts with your ITSM system, you can choose a more comfortable option for you.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/307910/
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