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  2. Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I
  3. Section VIII. Monitoring and reporting
  4. Email notifications
  5. Install and test the BLAT email utility on Windows
Veritas NetBackup™ Administrator's Guide, Volume I

Install and test the BLAT email utility on Windows

BLAT is the most common application that is used for email notification. You must install and configure a mail client on the hosts that send email notifications.

  • To send email notifications from the client, install the mail client on the NetBackup client.

  • To send email notifications from the server, install the mail client on the NetBackup master and the media server.

To test the email utility

  1. Create a test text file that contains a message. For example, create C:\testfile.txt
  2. From a command prompt, run:
    blat C:\testfile.txt -s test_subject -to useraccount@company.com

    If correctly configured, the contents of testfile.txt are sent to the email address that is specified.

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