Setting up email notifications about backups
Email notifications can be sent to the client's administrator or to the global administrator, specifying that a backup was successful or unsuccessful.
The following represents the contents of a notification email:
Backup on client hostname by root was partially successful. File list --------- C:\Documents and Settings
Before emails can be sent, the computing environment must be configured correctly.
NetBackup can send notification to specified email addresses about backups on all clients or specific clients.
The nbmail.cmd script must be configured on any Windows host that is to receive email.
Windows systems also require that an application to transfer messages using the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol be installed to accept script parameters. UNIX platforms have an SMTP transfer method built into the system.
NetBackup uses the mail transfer agent sendmail to send email notifications. Install sendmail from the following website and configure the environment accordingly:
http://www.sendmail.org/releases
To set up email notifications about backups, choose one or both of the following notification methods:
Send emails about failed backups only.
Send a message to the email address(es) of the NetBackup administrator(s) about any backup that ends in a non-zero status.
To do so, configure the Administrator email address in the Global Attributes properties. Since email is sent from the master server or the media server, the nbmail.cmd script or sendmail must be configured on the master and the media servers.
See Sending messages to the global administrator about unsuccessful backups only.
Send emails about successful and failed backups.
Send a message to the local administrator(s) of each client about successful and unsuccessful backups.
To do so, configure either the property or the property in the Universal Settings properties for the client. Email is sent from the client () or the master or the media server (). Therefore, nbmail.cmd or sendmail must be configured on the master and the media servers, or the client if specified.
See Sending messages to the administrator about successful and unsuccessful backups.