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Email notifications have stopped

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kmcferrin

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Jul 14, 2003
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We are running Backup Exec 9.0 for Windows Servers and are no longer getting email notifications when a job completes.

We have two media servers, both are configured identically. Originally I had email notifications configured to be sent along with a copy of the job log for Job Success, Job Failure, and Job Completed with Exceptions. There were three recipients getting copies of each notification (myself, my supervisor, and a tech). Everything worked fine for well over a year. Recently my supervisor asked not to be copied on these messages anymore, so I went into Backup Exec, clicked on Tools --> Configure Recipients and removed only his information. Now the tech and I are no longer receiving notifications from either media server.

I have verified that we are correctly configured as recipients (clicking on test generates the 'test email' message and we receive them from both servers). I have verified that we are listed as recipients on each of the three alert categories that we want notifications for, but when a job completes we do not get the notifications. I have gone so far as to delete all recipient and notification info from one of the two servers and rebuild it all from scratch, but I still can't get notifications to go, even after restarting all BackupExec services. The only thing that I can think of is that I made a mistake by not removing the third recipient from each of the alert categories first, then deleting them as a recipient. But I still can't figure out how to get alerts to flow again. Any ideas?
 
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Both media servers are in the same domain, one of them is a DC and the Exchange server, the other is neither. All servers are Windows 2000 SP4, and we are using SMTP notifications, not MAPI.
 
Mine stopped and after I rebooted the server it restarted sending. I think it's a bug..... I even have it do this on 2003 servers and 9.1. Often they will quit sending the magical reboot seems to take care of it.
 
Reboots didn't take care of it for me. Veritas support pointed me to an article indicating that I should upgrade to 9.1. I did the upgrade and now the notifications work fine.
 
We are running BE 8.6 and experiencing this too... but very rarely (once every 6 months are so).
The only way to get the e-mail notification back is a reboot of the server (Win 2000 Server).
Restarting Backup exec services is not enough!

The strange thing is that:
a) e-mail notification of the job still works (job succeded, job failed etc...)
b) sending a test message still works
c) it is only the e-mail notification which includes the joblog that doesn't work anymore.

Paul
 
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