Configure alert and notification settings
You can configure NetBackup to send email notifications when an event that is related to a job failure occurs.
To configure email notifications
- At the top right, click Settings > Alerts and notification settings.
- Click Email notifications.
- Enable the Send email notifications option.
- Enter the email information including the recipient's email address, the sender's email address, and the email sender's name.
- Enter the SMTP server details including the SMTP server name and port number.
Provide the SMTP user name and password if you have specified the credentials earlier on the SMTP server.
- Click Save.
You can exclude specific status codes so that email notifications are not sent for these errors.
To exclude specific status codes
- At the top right, click Settings > Alerts and notification settings.
- Click Exclude status codes.
- Enter the status codes or a range of status codes (separated by commas) for which you do not want to receive email notifications.
- Click Save.
An email notification for an alert contains information about master server, job, policy, schedule, and error. Emails may contain other information based on the type of job. For example, for VMware job failures, details such as vCenter Server and ESX host are present in the email notification.
Example email notification:
Master Server: master1.example.com
Client Name: client1.example.com
Job ID: 50
Job Start Time: 2018-05-17 14:43:52.0
Job End Time: 2018-05-17 15:01:27.0
Job Type: BACKUP
Parent Job ID: 49
Policy Name: Win_policy
Policy Type: WINDOWS_NT
Schedule Name: schedule1
Schedule Type: FULL
Status Code: 2074
Error Message: Disk volume is down