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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section II. Configuring hosts
  4. Configuring Host Properties
  5. Global Attributes properties
  6. Sending messages to the global administrator about unsuccessful backups only
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Sending messages to the global administrator about unsuccessful backups only

Use the following procedure to send messages to the global administrator about backups with a non-zero status.

To send messages to the global administrator about backups with a non-zero status

  1. On Windows servers, install and configure a mail client.

    See Installing and testing the email utility on Windows.

    Edit the nbmail.cmd script.

    See Configuring the nbmail.cmd script on Windows.

  2. On the master server, open the NetBackup Administration Console.
  3. In the NetBackup Administration Console, expand NetBackup Management > Host Properties > Master Server.
  4. In the right pane, double-click the master server you want to modify.
  5. Open the host properties of the master server.
  6. In the properties dialog box, in the left pane, click Global Attributes.
  7. In the Administrator's email address field, enter the email address of the administrator to receive the notification emails. (Separate multiple addresses with commas.) Click Apply.

    The global administrator's email address can also be changed by using the bpconfig command on the master server:

    install_path\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\bpconfig -ma email_address

    For example:

    C:\Program Files\Veritas\NetBackup\bin\admincmd\bpconfig 
    -ma name@company.com

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