Unable to send Alert Mails through Netbackup 7.0.1

[BeingManish]

Hi Experts,

I am new to NB and trying to configure mail services on my NB7.0 server.

I started by using the following Netbackup doc.:

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH32539

and set my id in both the Global & Universal setitings as prescribed in the doc.

Later I tried a test backup with a wrong table name, so that it should fail and I should get a mail.

Result: No luck.

2. On further analysis came across the 'backup notify' feature and also entered my mail id and tried.

No luck this time too.

3. Tried with a sample mail:

Mail -s "hello" <my mail id>

This time got the error:

Postfix/public/pickup doesn't exists

I created the dir using FIFO command and also started the postfix service

4. When I ran the command again, got the message, you have a new mail in /var/mail/root

but I couldn't found my mail over there.

5. Tried again with the test backup but no luck.

Plz. suggest if I am missing something.

Thanks.

Regards,

Manish

[RamNagalla · Accepted solution]

hi,

Do you have the SMPT server avaliable and configured in the server?

you may need to check this with your server admin.. , once you did verified , get the mail -x working with the   help of System admin.

then start configuring in netbackup level..

[Marianne]

I agree with Nagalla - you need to get mailx working at OS level.

This is not something we can help you with in NBU forum. Maybe your Unix/Linix admin can help, otherwise relevant forum for your OS.