Host Template: Cloud - Azure - Backup

Overview Copied

Azure Backup and Site Recovery services is a Business Continuity and Disaster Recover (BCDR) strategy that keeps data safe, and keeps apps and workloads up and running, when planned or unplanned outages occur.

Azure Backup and Site Recovery allows you to monitor various metrics for the Backup and Replication capabilities of a Recovery Services Vault in Azure. These metrics include the number of Replicated Items managed by a Vault, the health of Recovery Events, the status of all Backup and Recovery Jobs run by the machine and the results of a health report on the Vault.

This Host Template includes the following Service Checks:

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Note

The “Default Timespan” given for these Service Checks refers to the time period we use when retrieving metrics from Azure.

Note

See details about Monitoring Plugin thresholds here.

Prerequisites for monitoring Copied

Provide Subscription Access Copied

To use this Host Template you will need to provide access to the subscription you wish to monitor. Navigate to the Subscriptions section and select your Subscription.

In the Subscription to be monitored, click Access Control (IAM).

Then click the Add button, select the required role and select the application, once for each of the following roles:

• Reader

Repeat these steps for each subscription you wish to monitor.

Usage Instructions Copied

Please review the overall Cloud - Azure Opspack documentation for details on prerequisites, known issues, and other necessary configurations that apply to all Host Templates in the Opspack.

Add this Host Template Copied

Add the Cloud - Azure - Backup Host Template to your Opsview Monitor host. If the resource you’re monitoring has no hostname or public IP, then open the Advanced settings pane and change Host Check Command to Always assumed to be UP.

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For more information, refer to the documentation on Adding Host Templates to Hosts.

Add and configure Variables Copied

The Service Checks in this Host Template use the following variables, and they will be added to your Opsview Monitor instance alongside the Host Template:

• AZURE_CREDENTIALS
• AZURE_RESOURCE_DETAILS
• AZURE_VAULT_SETTINGS

Note

For more information, refer to the documentation on Adding Variables to Hosts.

Apply Changes Copied

Apply Changes and the system will now be monitored:

Available Variables Copied

AZURE_CREDENTIALS Copied

The Value is not used and therefore can be set to anything. Override the arguments with your Azure Credentials.

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AZURE_RESOURCE_DETAILS Copied

The Value is not used and therefore can be set to anything. Override the arguments with your Azure Resource Details.

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AZURE_VAULT_SETTINGS Copied

This variable is optional. If a Vault Timespan is not provided then a default of 1 day will be set. Timespan is limited between 1 and 7 days for the following service checks due to an API limitation:

• Azure - Backup and Site Recovery - Recovery Jobs
• Azure - Backup and Site Recovery - Recovery Events

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Plugin help Copied

Plugin: check_azure

Secure Args

This plugin uses the Secure Args feature for argument passing.

For mode-specific help, run the plugin with the -h -m <mode> flags. This will list the required and optional Variable Arguments for that mode. The appropriate mode for each Service Check is listed here:

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