Mail Notification

[Jimmyjoe1975]

Hi,

I'm very new with this system and I don't know how to configure the NetBackup version 7.0 over Windows 2008 to sent me a notification when the backups are success or fail.

Can anyone help me with this one?

Thank a lot.

 

[Skywalker1957]

Is your master server on Unix or Windows? Either way you can always look in the Netbackup Administrative Console Activity Monitor.

 

[Jimmyjoe1975]

Skywalker1957, is operating over Windows bases.
I know I always can use the Console Activity Monitor to check the backups, but I need to know the results over the mail. I think it can be done.

Thanks

 

[Skywalker1957]

I'm not a Windows guy, but I guess you could only keep the last 24 hours in Activity Monitor and then setup a scheduled task to run the command c:\Program Files\VERITAS\Netbackup\bin\bpdbjobs.exe and re-direct it to a flat file in c:\temp. Then use a standalone command level mail program like "bmail.exe" to send the contents of the flat file to an admin's or a group's smtp address (provided port 25 is not blocked.)

Did that help you any?

 

[Skywalker1957]

and don't forget you also have the bperror command.

bperror -U -backstat -hoursago 24

This command will sometimes give you false positives as it only reports on successes and errors. It's possible for a job to suffer an error during a backup, go back to a checkpoint, resume the job, and then complete successfully. That event, even though the job suceeded, will still be captured in the bperror log. I look at this daily as I like to be aware of this.

 

[Jimmyjoe1975]

Thank you very much for the answers.
I will try them.
I appreciate it.

 

[voyagerman]

hi please do this,

in the activity mon. gui

-host properties
-master servers
-properties
-global attributes
filling administrator email address

if you want succsess-fail , in every one client

-properties
-universal settings
check server sends mail and filling text box.

Regards

 

[Skywalker1957]

You can do that, if you don't mind an email for each client......That's not very workable if you have over 100 or so clients....or over 4,000 like I have globally.

Summarized reports are the most efficient way to work with the least number of people. If you ever get a Unix platform for your master server, I could give you some scripts that would make your job much more workable.