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NetWorker Notifications - General Information

Summary: Notifications have changed since NetWorker 9.0. This article provides a brief overview and examples.

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NetWorker Notifications  - General Information

Overview
 

NetWorker 9.0 versions before version 9.0 had notifications configured through Notification resource.   Also, each client resource had a configurable "Owner notification" field.
 
Since NetWorker version 9.0, this Notification resource has moved into a property (field) of Policy, Workflow, Action resource.   

In addition, each client resource still has a configurable Owner notification property (field) as in previous versions.
 
The following represents examples of:   
 
Policy Resource              Send Notification report
Workflow Resource         Send Notification report
Action Resource              Send Notification report
Client Resource               Owner Notification report

 

Additional Information

Case Scenario:  

Bronze Policy resource with a File System workflow containing a backup action.  The backup action contains a group with two clients. 
The smtpmail program is used (with different subjects) for each command corresponding to:     
 
Policy resource              Send Notification (On Completion)  , Command  
Workflow resource         Send Notification  (On Completion)  , Command
Action resource              Send Notification  (On Completion)  , Command
Client resource               Owner Notification
 
Examples:    
Taken after running the Bronze Policy, Filesystem Workflow, Backup action:   
 
EXAMPLE 1.   POLICY RESOURCE SEND NOTIFICATION REPORT

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---Summary notification report---
Policy name: Bronze
Workflow name:Applications, Workflow status:succeeded, Workflow start time:03/06/16 20:58:13, Duration:0 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds

 

 
EXAMPLE 2.  WORKFLOW RESOURCE SEND NOTIFICATION REPORT
 

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---Summary notification report---
Policy name: Bronze
Workflow name:Filesystem, Workflow status:succeeded, Workflow start time:03/06/16 20:58:13, Duration:0 hours 0 minutes 48 seconds
Action name:Backup, Action status:succeeded, Action start time:03/06/16 20:58:13, Duration:0 hours 0 minutes 47 seconds

 

EXAMPLE 3.  ACTION RESOURCE SEND NOTIFICATION REPORT
 

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---Traditional Backup Action report---
Policy name:Bronze Workflow name:Filesystem Action name:Backup Action status:succeeded Action start time:03/06/16 20:58:13 Action duration:0 hours 0 minutes 47 seconds Total 2 client(s), 0 Succeeded with warning(s), 2 Succeeded, 0 Failed.
---Successful backups---
bkp-svr-134:C:\tmp, level=full, size 44.520 MB , Duration 0 hours 0 minutes 14 seconds, 378 files
f10-sqlnp3.domx10.org:C:\tmp, level=full, size 48.317 MB , Duration 0 hours 0 minutes 23 seconds, 47 files
---Successful backups with warnings---
none
---Failed backups---
none

 

 

EXAMPLE 4. CLIENT RESOURCE OWNER NOTIFICATION REPORT

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NSR Protection Group: Bronze-Filesystem completed
Succeeded:  f10-sqlnp3.domx10.org
--- Successful Save Sets ---
* f10-sqlnp3.domx10.org:savefs savefs f10-sqlnp3.domx10.org: succeeded.
  f10-sqlnp3.domx10.org: C:\tmp     level=full,     48 MB 00:00:06     47 files
* f10-sqlnp3.domx10.org:C:\tmp Completed savetime=1457315894
* f10-sqlnp3.domx10.org:C:\tmp 94694:save: The backup of save set 'C:\tmp' succeeded.
* f10-sqlnp3.domx10.org:C:\tmp 94694:save: The backup of save set 'C:\tmp' succeeded.
 

 

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21 Apr 2024

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