How you can monitor Symantec backup jobs 

Important Notes

• Notifications must be configured at the job level, not at the global level.

Steps

Configure Email notification

1. Click the Backup Exec Button
2. Select configurations and settings –> Alerts and Notifications –> Email and Text Notification.
3. Click add a recipient, Click yes if a configuration pop up box appears
4. Under Email Server: Type the name of the mail server.  The IP address can also be used.  (i.e. exchange.com or 192.0.0.3)
5. Type the port number used by the mail server.
6. Enter the name of the sender in the Sender Name: field.  (i.e. Administrator)
7. Enter the Email address of the sender in the Sender Email address: field ( [email protected] )
8. If you want to authenticate the email information that you entered, check Enable email authentication, and then enter the user name and password for the sender’s email account.
9. Click OK

Adding recipients for notification

1. Click the Backup Exec button, and then select Configuration and Settings.
2. Select Alerts and Notifications, and then select Notification Recipients.
3. On the Manage Recipients dialog box, click Add a recipient.
4. In the Name field, type the name of the recipient.
5. Select Send notification by email.
6. Enter Recipient’s email address.
7. To limit the number of emails that are sent within a specific amount of time, check Send no more than x emails within x minutes/hours, and then enter the details.
8. Click Ok

Note

To obtain the mail server name, IP address, or port number, please contact an administrator of your mail server or mail server provider.

If you need any further assistance in configuring your backup software, please reach out to our support team at [email protected]