Email alert

[Bls1987]

I need to add the id in email alert of tape failure. Can anyone guide me how to add it?

[RamNagalla]

what exactly do you mean for tape failure?

what you are trying to get notified?

[Bls1987]

Sorry i mean that backup faluire and success notification

[rk1074 · Accepted solution]

please read "Setting up email notifications about backups": pg 150 onwards from the Administrator guide

I quote:

Sending messages to the administrator about successful and unsuccessful backups
An alternative to sending all emails through the master server is to send emails
through each client. An email can be sent to each client's administrator after all
backups.
To send email notifications for all backups from a client
1 On the master server, open the NetBackup Administration Console.
2 In the NetBackupAdministrationConsole, expand NetBackupManagement
> Host Properties > Clients.
3 In the right pane, double-click the client you want to modify. Multiple clients
can also be selected.
4 In the properties dialog box, in the left pane, select Universal Settings.
5 In the Client administrator’s email field, enter the email address of the
administrator to receive the notification emails. (Separate multiple addresses
with commas.)
See “Universal Settings properties” on page 218.
6 Enable the Client sends mail option and click Apply.

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Hope that helps

[RamNagalla]

see this tech note

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH64984

you can provide the email id in below locations, each have different purpose

· Global Attributes

o Administrator's e-mail address

· Universal Settings

o Client administrator's e-mail

o Client sends mail

o Server sends mail

The Global Attributes section contains the Administrator's e-mail address field which will be the email NetBackup feeds to nbmail.cmd when a backup finishes with a nonzero status. Putting an email address in Global Attributes will cause NetBackup to send e-mail notifications for only non-zero backup statuses.

The Universal Settings section contains the Client administrator's e-mail field which will be the email address NetBackup feeds to nbmail.cmd when a backup finishes with any status. Putting the email address in Universal Settings will cause NetBackup to send e-mail notifications for all backup statuses. This field exists on each client and could be setup to email the client's administrator with backup updates for all backups, failed and successful.

[Marianne]

You did not mention or select your OS.

The first step is to config email at OS level.

If Unix/Linux, check that sendmail is working. 
Use mailx as root user to test sending email.

If Windows, download and install blat. See http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH24110

Once email is working, use steps in Nagalla's post to add email address in Global attributes.

[rizwan84tx]

Do you have Opscenter server in your backup environment? You could use that for email alerts which is very easy to manage and administer.