Using the Alert Manager › Set Up Alerts

Set Up Alerts

Arcserve Backup provides event-based notification through email, pager, SNMP, broadcast, event log, or through Unicenter Network and Systems Management views. If you have Unicenter installed, you can use its Monitoring Agent to monitor the status of the Arcserve Backup processes and media, and report on the failure of backup jobs.

Example: Alert Notification

You can configure Alert to broadcast a message when a backup job finishes successfully.

To set up Alerts

1. From the Backup Manager window, click the Options toolbar button.

   The Options dialog opens.

2. Click the Alert tab.

   The Alert options display.

3. Click the Configure button to specify the transmission method.

   The Methods & Recipients Configuration dialog appears.

4. In the Methods & Recipients Configuration dialog, click New.

   The Configuration Name dialog opens.

5. Enter a name for the configuration in the Configuration Name field and then click OK.

   Select the Broadcast method, and click the Add button.

   The Add Broadcast Recipient dialog opens.

6. In the Group/Machine field, select your machine from the network, and click Add to add it to the Recipients field.

   Or, if you know the machine name, enter the machine name into the recipient field.

   Click OK and click OK again to save the configuration.

7. From the Methods & Recipients drop-down menu, select the saved configuration.
8. Select an Event from the Event drop-down menu, and click the Add button.

   Now that you have set up Alert, you can proceed with your backup.

   Click OK.

   Click Submit on the toolbar to submit your job.

   The Security and Agent Information dialog appears.

9. From the Security and Agent Information dialog, select the job you want to run.

   If the user name and password do not appear, click the Security button and enter the appropriate user name and password.

   Review the security information and click OK.

   The Submit Job dialog screen opens.

10. Enter a description for your backup job (optional), and click OK to submit the job.

    Your job, which is now active, appears on the Job Queue tab in the Job Status window. If the job is active, you can view its status by double-clicking it on the Job Queue tab to invoke the Job Properties dialog.

    When the job finishes, Alert notifies you, using the specified method.