NetWorker: Notifications Overview.

NetWorker provides notification functionality using the NSR Notification resource. Various default notifications come pre-configured with NetWorker and can be reviewed from the NetWorker Management Console (NMC) under Server > Notifications. 

Server->Notifications are not used for policy-specific actions such as backups or clones. To configure policy notifications, see: NetWorker: How To Configure Policy Email Notifications

NetWorker notifications use the following logic. If an Event occurs with a defined Priority, perform Action. The events and priority follow standard NetWorker logging; for example: Media->Critical. When a Critical Media message is logged in the NetWorker server daemon.raw an action that is defined in the NetWorker notification sends the corresponding message from the daemon log. The action can be one of the following:

• Log default:
  • Linux: Directs data about the NetWorker events to logger. The logger utility sends the event with a tag of daemon.notice to the Operating system log file defined in the system log configuration file, for example syslog.conf.
  • Windows: Sends data about NetWorker events to the ..\Program Files\EMC NetWorker\nsr\logs\messages log file, or as defined by nsrlog command.
• SMTP: Uses operating specific mail command to send email notification to system account or email recipient.
  • Linux: /bin/mail -s "Subject" -r sender@email.local recipient@email.local
  • Windows: smtpmail -s "Subject" -f sender@email.local recipient@email.local

• SNMP: Uses nstrap command to send SNMP trap to SNMP trap receiver.
  • Example: nsrtrap -c community_string trap_receiver_hostname/IP
  • SNMP configuration is covered in: NetWorker: How To Configure, Create, And Modify SNMP Notifications?

Notifications are detailed further in the NetWorker Administration Guide available through: NetWorker Support Information.