Azure Backup and Site Recovery Monitoring

Host Template: Cloud - Azure - Backup

This host template is one of 31 developed by Opsview to provide the most comprehensive Azure monitoring in the industry.

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:

Service Check Name	Description	Default Thresholds (Warning, Critical)	UOM
Azure - Backup and Site Recovery - Backup Jobs	The number and status of backup jobs and information on the erroneous ones [Default Timespan = 5mins, Default Check Interval = 5mins]	N/A	NA

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 Nagios thresholds here.

Usage Instructions

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.

Step 1: Add this Host Template

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.

For more information, refer to Opsview Knowledge Center - Adding Host Templates to Hosts.

Step 2: Add and configure variables required for this Host Template

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

AZURE_CREDENTIALS

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

Parameter	Position in Variable	Name	Description
--subscription-id	Arg1	Subscription ID	The Subscription ID of your Azure Subscription
--client-id	Arg2	Client ID	The Client ID of your Azure Subscription
--secret-key	Arg3	Secret Key	The Secret Key of your Azure Subscription
--tenant-id	Arg4	Tenant ID	The Tenant ID of your Azure Subscription

AZURE_RESOURCE_DETAILS

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

Parameter	Position in Variable	Name	Description
--resource-group	Arg1	Resource Group	Name of the Azure resource group to be monitored
--resource-name	Arg2	Resource Name	Name of the Azure resource to be monitored

AZURE_VAULT_SETTINGS

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

Parameter	Position in Variable	Name	Description
--vault-timespan	Arg1	Vault Query Timespan (Days)	The timespan for querying vault jobs and events in days

For more information, refer to Opsview Knowledge Center - Adding Variables to Hosts.

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: