Does it work with standalone Veeam BR server?

peekjef72 / veeam_exporter

Prometheus exporter for Veeam Entreprise Manager

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Does it work with standalone Veeam BR server? #13

Open dominikduennebacke opened 1 year ago

dominikduennebacke commented 1 year ago

Many thanks for creating this exporter!

I was wondering if it also support pulling data from a single Veeam Backup & Replication server without Enterprise Manager installed? I see that BR also has an API: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_backup_12_0_rest_api_reference_map_ot.pdf

Background: My org only uses a single BR server and introducing EM may result in additional licensing cost.

Kind regards, Dominik

peekjef72 commented 1 year ago

Hi Dominik,

I really don't known. I'm only a guy from the monitoring team without any admin skills about veeam ;) I suggest you to check by your own if possible :

set config to your backupserver (https server 9398 login pass)
to only set one metric config file at a time : (starting with veeam_overview_metrics.yml). files are in conf/metrics/
so to remove (or maybe adapt metrics files) that are not working...

As it is mentionned it the doc, all metrics are set externally (not hard coded in the exporter) so you can choose excallty what you need as metrics by selecting the files.

I hope it can help. please report the results of your tests. Thanks

Levente-B commented 1 year ago

Many thanks for creating this exporter!

I was wondering if it also support pulling data from a single Veeam Backup & Replication server without Enterprise Manager installed? I see that BR also has an API: https://www.veeam.com/veeam_backup_12_0_rest_api_reference_map_ot.pdf

Background: My org only uses a single BR server and introducing EM may result in additional licensing cost.

Kind regards, Dominik

Hi Dominik, EM pulls in the license at the config stage from the B&R server you connect it with. If you have Enterprise license for it, it should work fine. With free I'm not sure. Also, it's perfectly appropriate to host the two on the same server, EM creates it's own separate database and won't interfere with B&R.

BR, Levente