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Hi All,
Please share some insight on the following:

We've been using Acronis for years both internally and at customers, but its has gotten to the point where we need to look at a way to consolidate reporting on servers. To see if a backup has finish successfully or failed. I know that supports SNMP but I can't seem to find a good SNMP trap receiver program that does not cost an arm and a leg is a problem.

What do you use for reporting on your acronis backups?

thanks in advance for your answers.

Regards,

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Hi Johan, From your post looks like you don't use SNMP at the moment for other services. Could you please confirm that?

And, additionally, could you clarify why the email notifications will not suit for you?

I am not sure that the SNMP is a best choice if you are going to use it for Acronis only. For me it is good when you already have SNMP integrated into your infrastructure and want to have a single point for monitoring of different services.

Hi Andrew,
email notices are just getting to cluttered and as I'm not the only one monitoring the backups it can become an issue with who handling what. the snmp route looks good but most of the packages out there are more focused on system monitoring and management then allowing application monitoring.

Hi Johan, thank you for your clarification.

It seems I have a proposition for you how to make the email notifications handy in your environment.

  1. To avoid mess in your mailbox you may uncheck the "successful notifications". For example you can see on the screenshot I've attached - I prefer to receive only Error and Interaction messages. I don't get them quite a lot so that they make a mess in the mailbox.
  2. If you have more than one administrator monitoring backup activities than you can put all of them to recipients of the email notifications separating them by semicolons.

Benefits of this method:

  • No complex specific setup is needed - people use their own email clients.
  • A potentially bad even will never be missed - people check their email (including from the mobile devices) more often than some specific applications.
  • You can define what to monitor for different people - e.g. in Default backup options set up notifications for those who need to receive all notifications from all backup plans. Then as soon as you create a new backup plan, all those people will already be included to the newly created backup plan.
    However if you want to add some particular person to this particular plan (e.g. the senior administrator should also be informed about bad things with the main production server) - just add his email address to the list. Viola!
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