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  2. NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide
  3. Section II. Monitoring and notifications
  4. Notifications
  5. Job notifications
  6. Send notifications to the backup administrator about failed backups
NetBackup™ Web UI Administrator's Guide

Send notifications to the backup administrator about failed backups

You can send notifications to the backup administrator about backups with a non-zero status.

On UNIX, NetBackup uses the mail transfer agent sendmail to send email notifications. For Windows, NetBackup requires that an application to transfer messages using SMTP is installed and that the nbmail.cmd script is configured on the Windows hosts that send notifications.

See Configure the nbmail.cmd script on the Windows hosts.

To configure notifications for the backup administrator of a NetBackup host, see the following topic.

See Send notifications to a host administrator about backups.

To send notifications to the backup administrator about failed backups

  1. On the left, select Hosts > Host properties.
  2. Select the primary server.
  3. If necessary click Connect. Then click Edit primary server.
  4. Click Global attributes.
  5. Enter the email address of the administrator. (Separate multiple addresses with commas.)
  6. Click Save.

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