Watchman Monitoring announces its Archiware P5 Plugin Beta!WMlovesP5

 

The plugin will log and report all job exceptions, inform the Watchman Monitoring subscriber when tape drives need cleaning or are in need of a new tape, and display the Archive, Backup, and Synchronize plans.

 

Features

  • Alerts when jobs are waiting for tapes
  • Alerts when drives need cleaning
  • Reports on running and completed backup, archive, or sync jobs and flags errors for attention
  • Reports maintenance expiration date
  • Reports on Backup2Go clients

Licensing Reports

  • Whether or not specific P5 modules are licensed
  • Server info such at port in use, version of P5
  • Number of backup2go clients
  • Number of tape slots
  • Number of drives licensed
  • Virtual clients or server agents licensed

Coming Soon

  • Add OS detection to make it portable to Linux, Windows, FreeBSD etc (to allow watchman to report on P5 wherever it is installed, such as in DDP SAN appliance)
  • Made warnings to Backup2Go clients which haven’t backed up in X days (configurable pref)
  • Add warnings from cli and logs to better alert of conditions which require intervention on the part of IT Support staff
If you’re interested in adding this Plugin to your Watchman Monitoring account, fill out the form below:

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  • Let us know what you think or hope this plugin will do?

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