MAXDB backups

Purpose

Backups are important for disaster recovery, you have to make sure that DATA and LOG are saved regularly.
This monitor will look for the time elapsed between last backup as well as backup errors and log modes

Configuration hints

Use the configuration table to setup monitoring rules for your backups

Maximum backup age

You can set the maximum age for each type of backup

Set backup type field to match a particular type of backup, or use star (*) to match any

Set Max backup age field to receive an alarm if too much time elapsed since last backup.

This field can contain an absolute number (unit in minutes). In that case, the Severity field will be used to define alarm severity.

You can also set a multi threshold value like: G2W:120 W2M:180 M2C:300 (Warning if above 120, Major if above 180, Critical if above 300)

Backup errors

If Error severity field is not set to DISABLED, an alarm will be sent in case of backup error.

Set Error code to match a particular error code, use * to match any

If Exclusive is set and a backup error matching Error code is found, this specific backup will not be processed by next monitoring rules of the table.

LOG mode

Use LOG mode table to check if LOG mode is configured as expected

Set Expected mode with the expected configuration.

If the discovered mode does not match, an alarm will be sent using severity set in Severity field

Atomic fields

Send metrics
If set, the monitor will send metric for the last backup age

Surveillance table

Parameter	Description
Active	If checked, the rule is enabled and will be processed
Backup type	To filter on a particular type of backup. Use this field to differentiate the monitoring of LOG and DATA by example
Max. Backup age	Defines the threshold for the maximum age of a backup
Severity	Defines the severity of the alert generated in the case of a too old backup (unless multi threshold syntax is used)
Error code	To set a particular backup error code to look for, use * to match any
Error severity	The severity of the generated alarm in case of backup errors
Auto clear	If set, the monitor will CLEAR any previous alarm if the conditions of those alarms are not true anymore
Alarm tag	You can define some text to use as a prefix of the alarm message generated by the current rule
Exclusive	If set to true and a backup error matches the Error field, this particular backup will not be processed by next rules
Alarm	Defines if an alarm has to be generated for the given rule

Generated metrics

metricId	metricUnit	metricTarget	metricDescription
MAXDB_BACKUP_AGE	minutes	TYPE	Sends disk usage per type of storage