Best way to monitor backup exec now?

Hi,

thank you for your question.

You can monitor success or fail of Backup Exec with an IMAP sensor as described in this article. Please have a look at this article as well.

prtgplugins.com is external and not related to Paessler, as such we do not really have any control over the same.

I'd rather not setup another mailbox to manage. I'm trying to do this with a Powershell script. I did a similar thing to monitor our server room temp with prtg. I'm actually reusing that code but I'm having trouble. But although in Powershell it works perfect and my if statement returns true. In prtg It goes all the way to my else statement every time. And if I add exit codes it breaks completely. See example below.

$events=Get-WinEvent -FilterHashTable @{logname='application'; ProviderName="backup Exec"} -MaxEvent 1 -ComputerName Server1
$message=$events | select-object message
$result = $message -match "(?s)Backup Exec Alert: (?<content>.*)\n\(Server"
$alert=$matches['content']
if ($alert -eq "Job Completed with Exceptions") {Write-host $alert ":Job Completed"} 
elseif ($alert -eq "Job Failed") {Write-host $alert ":Job Failed"} 
else {write-host $alert ":Error"} 

And here is the results of the sensor debug. No clue why this works in powershell and not in PRTG.

Get-WinEvent : No events were found that match the specified selection criteria
.
At C:\Program Files (x86)\PRTG Network Monitor\custom sensors\EXE\Backup Exec M
onitor.ps1:1 char:21
+ $events=Get-WinEvent <<<<  -FilterHashTable @{logname='application'; Provider
Name="backup Exec"} -MaxEvent 1 -ComputerName Server1
    + CategoryInfo          : ObjectNotFound: (:) [Get-WinEvent], Exception
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NoMatchingEventsFound,Microsoft.PowerShell.Comma 
   nds.GetWinEventCommand
 
Cannot index into a null array.
At C:\Program Files (x86)\PRTG Network Monitor\custom sensors\EXE\Backup Exec M
onitor.ps1:4 char:17
+ $alert=$matches[ <<<< 'content']
    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidOperation: (content:String) [], RuntimeEx 
   ception
    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NullArray
 
:Error

So fixed the permission issue no my script runs fine. But I can't get exit codes to work. Any line that has an exit code no matter the result of the statement true or false it will exit the script. What is wrong with this? Also is there anyway to get this to return the result rather than me manually giving it a string to pass to PRTG?

$events=Get-WinEvent -FilterHashTable @{logname='application'; ProviderName="backup Exec"} -MaxEvent 1 -ComputerName Server1
$message=$events | select-object message
$result = $message -match "(?s)Backup Exec Alert: (?<content>.*)\n\(Server"
$alert=$matches['content']
if ($alert -eq "Job Completed with Exceptions") {Write-host $alert ":Job Completed"} exit 0
elseif ($alert -eq "Job Failed") {Write-host $alert ":Job Failed"} exit 1
else {write-host $alert ":Error"} exit 1

Finally figured this out. I'm new to powershell scripting and programming in general. my exit statements needed to be on a separate line. And I setup a variable to give me the message that the query was pulling.... see below. Hope this helps someone.

$events=Get-WinEvent -FilterHashTable @{logname='application'; ProviderName="backup Exec"} -MaxEvent 1 -ComputerName Server1
$message=$events | select-object message
$result = $message -match "(?s)Backup Exec Alert: (?<content>.*)\n\(Server"
$alert=$matches['content']
$info=[string]$alert+":"+$alert

if ($alert -eq "Job Completed with Exceptions") 
	{Write-host $info 
	
	exit 0}
	
elseif ($alert -eq "Job Failed") 
	{Write-host $info
	
	Exit 1} 
	
else 
	{write-host $info
	
	Exit 1}

Thanks for posting the powershell script here for Backupexec, however when i am using the script, I get an Install Warning, any chance you can help me out?

Thanks for posting! Saved me some time :)