Veeam AIops

Disclaimer: Community-maintained open-source project. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Veeam Software. "Veeam" is a trademark of its owner. MIT licensed.

AI-powered Veeam Backup & Replication operations with a built-in governance harness — unified audit log, policy engine, token/runaway budget guard, undo-token recording, and descriptive risk tiers. Self-contained: no external dependencies beyond httpx and the MCP SDK. Coverage is not yet full coverage of every Veeam operation.

Verification status: the test suite is mock-based; this package has not yet been validated against a live Veeam B&R server. See docs/VERIFICATION.md.

What works

• CLI (veeam-aiops ...): init, overview, job list/get/start/stop/retry/enable/disable, restore list-points/start, repository list/get/state, session list/get/log/stop, backup list/objects/usage/ranking, diagnose job-failures/repo-capacity, infra servers/proxies, secret set/list/rm/migrate/rotate-password, doctor, mcp.
• MCP server (veeam-aiops mcp or veeam-aiops-mcp): 27 tools (19 read, 8 write), every one wrapped with the bundled @governed_tool harness.
• Diagnostics / RCA (read-only): diagnose job-failures triages recent job sessions — flags every Failed/Warning run and categorizes the likely cause (repository full, source/guest unreachable, credential/VSS failure, retry exhaustion), citing the session result + matched error substring; diagnose repo-capacity flags repositories under the free-space thresholds (<15% warn, <10% critical). Both cite the measured number that tripped each finding, worst-first.
• Encrypted credentials: passwords live in an encrypted store ~/.veeam-aiops/secrets.enc (Fernet + scrypt) — never plaintext on disk. Unlock with a master password from VEEAM_AIOPS_MASTER_PASSWORD (MCP/CI) or an interactive prompt (CLI).
• Reversibility: write ops with a clean inverse (job start/stop/retry, enable/disable) record an inverse undo descriptor; the irreversible VM restore declares none and is tagged high risk.
• Async sessions: Veeam jobs and restores run as sessions — poll progress with session list / session get / session log (the runaway budget guard prevents poll loops from running away).

What this tool does, and does not, decide

It delivers Veeam Backup & Replication operations — reads and writes — accurately and efficiently, and records every one of them. It does not decide whether a write is allowed to happen. That is the agent's judgement, or the permission of the Veeam account you connect it with: give that account a read-only or restricted role on the VBR server and the writes fail at the server — the place that actually owns the permission.

So there is no read-only switch, no policy file, no approval gate to configure. The one thing the tool guarantees is that nothing is silent: every call, over MCP and over the CLI alike, lands an audit row in ~/.veeam-aiops/audit.db, and reversible writes still capture their before-state and record an inverse.

Each tool declares a risk_level, kept in agreement with its [READ]/[WRITE] documentation tag by a test, and carried into the audit row as a descriptive tier — so a reviewer can see at a glance that a row was a high-risk restore. It is a label, not a gate.

Running a smaller / local model? See agent-guardrails.md — it lists the guardrails this tool now enforces for you (so you don't spend prompt budget restating them) and gives a ready-made system prompt for what's left.

Quick start

As a Claude Code plugin

One install gives an agent both the skill and the MCP server:

/plugin marketplace add AIops-tools/marketplace
/plugin install veeam-aiops@aiops-tools

The MCP server is fetched with uv and pinned to the package version this plugin declares, so an audit row can be traced back to the code that wrote it. Credentials are still configured with veeam-aiops init — see below.

As an OpenClaw plugin

The same bundle is published on ClawHub, where one install delivers the skill and its MCP server together:

openclaw plugins install clawhub:@aiops-tools/veeam-aiops
openclaw skills info veeam-aiops          # expect: Visible to model: yes

Restart the OpenClaw gateway afterwards so it loads the plugin. The MCP server is fetched with uv, pinned to this exact release, so uvx has to be on PATH — without it the skill still installs but reports Visible to model: no. Credentials are configured exactly as below.

As a CLI or standalone MCP server

uv tool install veeam-aiops
veeam-aiops init        # interactive wizard: connection details + encrypted password
veeam-aiops doctor      # verify config, encrypted store, connectivity

init writes ~/.veeam-aiops/config.yaml (non-secret connection details) and stores the login password encrypted in ~/.veeam-aiops/secrets.enc. Example config it produces:

targets:
  - name: vbr-lab
    host: 10.0.0.20
    username: "DOMAIN\\backup-admin"
    port: 9419
    verify_ssl: false          # self-signed lab certs only
    timeout: 30                # seconds per request; raise for large estates

On a large VBR installation the /jobs and /sessions endpoints can take far longer than the rest of the API — a live 13.1 environment did not answer a single-record /jobs query inside 120 s while repositories answered in under 3 s. timeout lets you give those endpoints longer. It does not make a slow endpoint fast: if a raised budget also expires, the endpoint is the bottleneck, not this client.

For non-interactive use (MCP server, CI, cron) export the master password so the store can be unlocked without a prompt:

export VEEAM_AIOPS_MASTER_PASSWORD='your-master-password'

Where that password then lives: an exported variable is readable by every process this shell starts and is recorded by shell history. On a shared or long-lived host, prefer the interactive prompt, or inject it from a secret manager for the life of the one command that needs it.

Managing secrets

veeam-aiops secret set vbr-lab            # prompts hidden for the password
veeam-aiops secret list                   # names only, values never shown
veeam-aiops secret rm vbr-lab
veeam-aiops secret rotate-password        # re-encrypt under a new master password
veeam-aiops secret migrate                # import a legacy plaintext .env, then deletes it

Migrating from an old ~/.veeam-aiops/.env (legacy VEEAM_<TARGET>_PASSWORD vars)? Run veeam-aiops secret migrate; the old .env is renamed to .env.migrated. The plaintext env var is still honoured as a fallback (with a deprecation warning) for a smooth transition.

Audit & safety

All operations are logged to a local SQLite audit DB under ~/.veeam-aiops/ (relocatable via VEEAM_AIOPS_HOME) — the harness records, it does not authorize. Every call, over MCP and the CLI alike, lands an audit row; the token/runaway budget guard is a safety backstop (not an authorization gate) that stops a stuck agent from burning unbounded calls, and each row carries a descriptive risk tier that gates nothing. Destructive CLI commands (job stop, restore start) require double confirmation and support --dry-run. API-returned text is run through a prompt-injection sanitizer.

Contributing & feature requests

Coverage is intentionally focused. Missing a device, action, or feature you need? Open an issue or pull request at github.com/AIops-tools/Veeam-AIops — feature requests, contributions, and comments are all welcome.

License: MIT.