Azure Monitor Alert: AgentExpiry on VaultXXX ( microsoft.recoveryservices/vaults ).

Question

"Azure Monitor Alert AgentExpiry on VaultXXX ( microsoft.recoveryservices/vaults )"

"Critical: Azure Site Recovery components of Recovery Services vault: 'VaultXXX' has expired."

Hello,

We've had two of the alerts stated above, over the past couple of weeks.

This is Hyper-V to Azure replication.

Each time I've checked the systems and everything looks up to date and replicating just fine.

So what am I supposed to be looking for?

I'm concerned as the alert says Critical and Severity 1, but I can't find anything wrong.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi @AmazingPhone6248

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A Forum, thank you for posting your query here!

The alerts you're seeing, particularly the "Azure Monitor Alert AgentExpiry" and the "Critical: Azure Site Recovery components... has expired", suggest that there may be an issue with the version of the Azure Site Recovery (ASR) components in your setup

Both the alerts are Built-in Azure Monitor alerts for Azure Site Recovery for prevention.

1. "Critical: Azure Site Recovery components of Recovery Services vault: 'VaultXXX' has expired."
   We recommend always upgrading to the latest component versions:

With every new version 'N' of an Azure Site Recovery component that's released, all versions below 'N-4' are considered to be out of support.

Important

Official support is for upgrading from > N-4 version to N version. For example, if you're running you are on N-6, you need to first upgrade to N-4, and then upgrade to N.

Please go through the below reference document.
Refer: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/service-updates-how-to
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-whats-new

2 "Azure Monitor Alert AgentExpiry on VaultXX microsoft.recoveryservices/vaul)"

In this scenario, we strongly recommend that you enable automatic updates. You can allow Site Recovery to manage updates as follows:

When a new agent update is available, Site Recovery provides a notification in the vault towards the top of the page. In the vault > Replicated Items, click this notification at the top of the screen:

New Site Recovery replication agent update is available. Click to install ->

Select the VMs for which you want to apply the update, and then click OK.

On the VM disaster recovery overview page, you will find the 'Agent status' field which will say 'Critical Upgrade' if the agent is due to expire. Click on it and follow the subsequent instructions to manually upgrade the virtual machine.

Refer: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/service-updates-how-to

Please let me know how it goes, we will always help as you needed.!