Virtual machine alert notification may be incorrect for the VMware policies with specific Replication Director options
Consider the example shown:
You have a VMware policy called P1 with the options listed:
The option is enabled.
The option is disabled.
P1 backs up the virtual machines listed:
VM1 that resides on DS1 NFS datastore
VM2 that resides on DS2 NFS datastore
The job hierarchy that is shown is displayed when you run P1:
Job1 - The discovery (parent) backup job for virtual machine discovery.
Job2 - The child job that collects the configuration data for VM1 and VM2.
Job3 - The child job to take a snapshot of DS1 associated with VM1.
Job4 - The child job to take a snapshot of DS2 associated with VM2.
If a datastore snapshot job fails, the alert notification is always sent for the first virtual machine that appears in the job that collects configuration data.
If Job4 in the example fails, an alert notification is sent for VM1 instead of VM2.
To get the correct information about the failed VM snapshot job, go to the Activity Monitor in the NetBackup Administration Console.