Notifications

1) E-mail notifications

This option sets up e-mail notifications about the basic events during your backup task, such as successful completion, backup failure or need for user interaction. The default setting for this option is Disabled.

Select the Send e-mail notifications check box to enable notifications.

Under Send e-mail notifications check box select the desired settings as follows:

• When backup completes successfully – to send a notification when the backup task has completed successfully.
• When backup fails – to send a notification when the backup task has failed.
• Add full log to the notification – to receive the full log.

Type one or several e-mail addresses where notifications will be sent. Addresses are entered in the E-mail addresses field separated by semicolons.

Indicate the desired Subject for your notification messages.

SMTP server – enter the name of the outgoing mail SMTP server.

Port – set the port of the SMTP server (the default port value is set to 25).

User name – enter your username.

Password – enter your password.

From – type the e-mail address of the user from whom the message will be sent. If you leave this field empty, messages will be sent as if they are from the destination address.

Use encryption – you can opt for the encrypted connection to the mail server and choose SSL or TLS encryption types.

Click Send test e-mail message to make sure all your settings are correct.

2) SNMP notifications

This option defines whether the agent(s) operating on the managed machine have to send the logs of the backup operation events to the specified Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) managers. You can choose the types of events to be sent. The default setting for this option is: Disabled.

Select whether to send the backup operation events log messages to machines running SNMP management applications, please, choose one of the following:

• Do not send SNMP notifications – to disable sending the events log of the backup operations to SNMP managers.
• Send SNMP notifications individually for backup operation events – to send the events log of the backup operations to the specified SNMP managers.
  Type of events to send – choose the types of events to be sent: Information, Warnings or Errors.
  Server name or it's IP – type the name or IP address of the host running the SNMP management application where the notifications will be sent to.
  Community – type the name of the SNMP community to which both the host running the SNMP management application and the sending machine belong. The typical community is public.
  Click Send test message to make sure all your settings are correct.

SNMP objects

Acronis Backup for VMware provides the following Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) objects to SNMP management applications:

• Type of event

  Object identifier (OID): 1.3.6.1.4.1.24769.100.200.1.0

  Syntax: OctetString

  The value may be “Information”, “Warning”, “Error” and “Unknown”. “Unknown” is sent only in the test message.

• Text description of the event

  Object identifier (OID): 1.3.6.1.4.1.24769.100.200.2.0

  Syntax: OctetString

  The value contains the text description of the event (it looks identical to messages published by Acronis Backup for VMware in its log).

Example of varbind values:

1.3.6.1.4.1.24769.100.200.1.0:Information

1.3.6.1.4.1.24769.100.200.2.0:I0064000B

Supported operations

Acronis Backup for VMware supports only TRAP operations. It is not possible to manage Acronis Backup for VMware using GET- and SET- requests. This means that you need to use an SNMP Trap receiver to receive TRAP-messages.

More information

http://kb.acronis.com/content/11851

About the test message

When configuring SNMP notifications, you can send a test message to check if your settings are correct.

The parameters of the test message are as follows:

• Type of event

  OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.24769.100.200.1.0

  Value: “Unknown”

• Text description of the event

  OID: 1.3.6.1.4.1.24769.100.200.2.0

  Value: “?00000000”