Veeam Dashboard

The Veeam Dashboard in MSPControl offers a calendar-based view of your Veeam backup activities and global statistics about your backup environment. It helps you quickly identify which backups succeeded, failed, or encountered warnings on any given day, providing an at-a-glance overview of backup health, license status, and resource availability.

Global Stats

At the top of the dashboard, you may see quick metrics like:

• Veeam Licenses Expiring in next 30 days – Alerts you to license renewals needed soon.
• Offline Veeam Backup Servers – Indicates how many Veeam servers are currently unreachable.
• “Veeam DB Connect Error” Servers – Lists servers that have issues connecting to the Veeam database.
• Low Space Servers – Shows backup servers running out of storage capacity.
• VM’s Not Seen Last 72h – Flags virtual machines that haven’t reported or been backed up recently.

These statistics provide a quick health check for your overall backup infrastructure, prompting you to address any urgent issues (e.g., renewing licenses, troubleshooting offline servers, or freeing up disk space).

Calendar View

Below the global stats, you’ll see a calendar for the current month (or selected month), where each day is color-coded to reflect the status of the backup jobs that ran:

• Green – Successful backups.
• Red – Failed backups.
• Yellow/Orange – Warnings or partial successes.

This color-coding makes it easy to spot patterns, such as recurring failures on specific days or a job that frequently triggers warnings.

View Type

In the top-left corner, there’s a View Type selector allowing you to toggle between:

• VM – Shows backups organized by individual virtual machines.
• Category – Groups backup jobs by a defined category (e.g., “Production,” “Test,” or “Critical”).
• Job – Displays each distinct backup job and its results on the calendar.

Choose the view that best suits your administrative needs. For instance, if you want to focus on specific backup jobs (e.g., “Daily Full Backup” vs. “Incremental”), switch to Job view. If you want to see how a particular VM is faring across multiple backups, pick VM view.

Filtering and Navigation

You can often filter by Customer (if you manage multiple clients) to narrow down the calendar to a single organization’s backups. Use the Next or Back buttons (or date pickers) to switch months and review historical or upcoming schedules.

Daily Backup Details

Hovering over a colored entry on any day typically reveals more information, such as:

• Backup Job Name
• Start/End Times
• Backup Size
• Detailed Status (Success, Fail, Warning)

Clicking on a green, yellow, or red bar navigates you to a more detailed page that lists individual VMs, last restore points, warnings, or error messages for that specific backup job. This level of detail helps you diagnose issues quickly—if a job fails, you can investigate logs or configurations in Veeam to find the root cause.

Notifications

You may see a Notification button or icon on the dashboard, allowing you to receive alerts if backups fail or reach a warning state. Configure these notifications according to your operational needs, ensuring you stay informed about critical backup events.

Best Practices

• Check the Dashboard Daily – A quick glance at the color-coded calendar helps you confirm that all scheduled backups succeeded overnight or over the weekend.
• Investigate Failures Promptly – Red entries indicate a failed backup. Review Veeam logs or job configurations to resolve issues before the next scheduled run.
• Monitor Warnings – Yellow/orange entries can point to partial successes or minor issues. Address them to prevent more severe failures down the line.
• Stay Ahead of Infrastructure Issues – Keep an eye on the global stats (e.g., offline servers, low space) so you can proactively fix potential bottlenecks or licensing problems.
• Leverage Filtering – If you manage multiple customers or want to isolate a specific category of backups, use the Customer and View Type filters for targeted analysis.