Monitoring of Veeam is not reliable

Question

Has anyone successfully monitored Veeam with LM? From what I am seeing out of the box, every single module is unreliable. The scripts run probably 50-60% of the time. Otherwise they just fail with the error: Veeam Powershell snap-in was loaded from an incorrect location.This results in numerous "No data " responses. Which leads to issues with alerts not clearing when they should, or not opening when they should. Which cascades into our ticketing system to cause further confusion.Powershell...

tk_baha · Accepted Answer

We believe this one has been sorted out. The collector service cannot run as system. Even if the correct veeam credentials are provided as properties, this behavior will continue. Once the service is set to use actual account credentials, the issue goes away. Strange that service works half the time but this appears to be the issue. The below comment on veeam modules lead me to believe that you could specify veeam.user or wmi.user and pass, but the issue did not fully resolve until we switched t...