You can set it up for the following four events: With this kind of notification, you cannot include an attached job log, however I've found this kind of email notification invaluable in monitoring the backup procedure. If all is setup correctly, you should receive a test mail from the email account. Backup Exec does not know if the mails are being sent correctly, so you need to test this yourself. IMPORTANT : Make sure to test the notification by pressing the Test Notification button and checking the target email account.
You will see a new notification item on the right hand side with a mail icon beside it. On the Notifications tab, select the event you want to be notified of.Įnter the email address to notify or addresses separated by semicolons( ).Įnter the subject line and the message text. Set the SMTP port to 25 which is the port used in most cases for email. Open up Backup Exec (The version I'm using is 8.0, please advise if this is any different for other versions).Ĭlick Tools on the Menu and select Notification Setup.Įnter the name of the SMTP Server and your email address. For example:Įmail address : server name :
So, contact your ISP and get them to give you a new email address and the SMTP server name. You CANNOT use Hotmail or any other Web-based email account as these are protected from this kind of use. Okay internet access is fairly normal for most servers, but what's this about an SMTP server?īasically, you need an ISP hosted email account so you can access the mail server. An email account and the name of the correct SMTP server. I just use SMTP now and look at the logs indivually for notifications marked as failed.If Backup Exec is running on your server and you don't have MicroSoft Exchange or any other server software installed, you can still set up email notification through SMTP.Ģ. There is no fix other then downgrading to Office2K without SR2 or the security update according to Vertitas.Ĭourse this point is mute if your just using simple SMTP. Backup Exec is one of those programs so Outlook blocks it after the update because there no interactive way to say "Yes, allow this program access to Outlook". I gave up trying to fix it a long time ago.ĭilbert, if you were using MAPI/Outlook to send it did you apply the securty update or SR2 to Office? Because that stops programs that use simple MAPI commands from sending mail via Outlook, it is is what causes the dialog box that says "A third party program to send a message using Outlook, blah blah blah". E-mail stopped working abrubtly one day, and it hasn't worked since. I've had e-mail notifications enabled right from the start when I deployed BackupExec.
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