Arcserve version 7.0 email notifications

[51774]

Im an Arcserve newbie, I want to set up arcserve v7.0 to email notifications when a job has been completed successfully or if it has failed, that sort of stuff.
Windows NT4.0
Arcserve Verseion 7.0
Build 1110
How do I go about on doing this, Help option is not helping at all.
Thanks in advance.

 

[richw1234]

Hi there,

Yes this can be done two ways as far as know, is to use the in-built alert messenger which needs an exchange server to fire emails. Alert Messenger can also be good for setting up snmp alerts aswell, you might want to have a look at that.

The second way, is to right a batch file that sends an email out using the utility blat.exe, then modify your job, under pre/post options you can tell it to run this file when the job fail/incomplete/finishes, tick the appropiate, and make sure you have got the correct path to the batch file and that's it really.

Hope this helps you out.

 

[51774]

I'll use the Alert messenger option, is it easy to set up?
do you know of any documentation I can download to accomplish this?
Thank you for your response.

 

[richw1234]

Hi there

You can find documentation on the CA's support site, there maybe people on this forum who maybe able to give you a more in depth guide to it's use.

 

[carsonq]

Hi there... try using BLAT provided you have an SMTP gateway to use.
The BLAT can be called from Arcserve as a post-execution of the backup and depending on the result of your backup you can tailor your responses.