Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Create a workflow for a new policy in NetWorker Administration

1. In the NetWorker Administration window, click Protection.
2. In the left pane, expand Policies, and then select the policy that you created.
3. In the right pane, select Create a new workflow.
4. In the Name field, type the name of the workflow.
   The maximum number of allowed characters for the Name field is 64.
   • Legal Characters: _ - + = # , . % @
   • Illegal Characters: /\*:?[]()$!^;'"`~><&|{}
5. In the Comment box, type a description for the workflow.
   The maximum number of allowed characters for the Comment field is 128.
6. From the Send Notifications list, select how to send notifications for the workflow:
   • To use the notification configuration that is defined in the policy resource to specify when to send a notification, select Set at policy level.
   • To send notifications with information about each successful and failed workflow and action, after the workflow completes all the actions, select On Completion.
   • To send notifications with information about each failed workflow and action, after the workflow completes all the actions, select On Failure.
7. In the Send notification attribute, when you select the On Completion option or On failure option, the Command box appears. Use this box to configure how NetWorker sends the notifications. You can use the nsrlog command to send the notifications to a log file or you can send an email notification.

   The default notification action is to send the information to the policy_notifications.log file. By default, the policy_notifications.log file is located in the /nsr/logs directory on Linux and in the C:\Program Files\EMC NetWorker\nsr\logs folder on Windows.

   Use the default mailer program on Linux to send email messages, or use the smtpmail application on Windows:

   • To send notifications to a file, type the following command, where policy_notifications.log is the name of the file:

     nsrlog -f policy_notifications.log

   • On Linux, to send an email notification, type the following command:

     mail -s subject recipient

   • For NetWorker Virtual Edition (NVE), to send an email notification, type the following command:

     /usr/sbin/sendmail -v recipient_email "subject_text"

   • On Windows, type the following command:

     smtpmail -s subject -h mailserver recipient1@mailserver recipient2@mailserver...

     where:

     • -s subject—Includes a standard email header with the message and specifies the subject text for that header. Without this option, the smtpmail program assumes that the message contains a correctly formatted email header and nothing is added.

     • -h mailserver—Specifies the hostname of the mail server to use to relay the SMTP email message.

     • recipient1@mailserver—Is the email address of the recipient of the notification. Multiple email recipients are separated by a space.

8. In the Running section, perform the following steps to specify when and how often the workflow runs:
   1. To ensure that the actions that are contained in the workflow run when the policy or workflow starts, in the Enabled box, leave the option selected. To prevent the actions in the workflow from running when the policy or workflow that contains the action starts, clear this option.
   2. To start the workflow at the time that is specified in the Start time attribute, on the days that are defined in the action resource, in the AutoStart Enabled box, leave the option selected. To prevent the workflow from starting at the time that is specified in the Start time attribute, clear this option.
   3. To specify the time to start the actions in the workflow, in the Start Time attribute, use the spin boxes.
      The default value is 9:00 PM.
   4. To specify how frequently to run the actions that are defined in the workflow over a 24-hour period, use the Interval attribute spin boxes. If you are performing transaction log backup as part of application-consistent protection, you must specify a value for this attribute in order for incremental transaction log backup of SQL databases to occur.
      The default Interval attribute value is 24 hours, or once a day. When you select a value that is less than 24 hours, the Interval End attribute appears. To specify the last start time in a defined interval period, use the spin boxes.
   5. To specify the duration of time in which NetWorker can manually or automatically restart a failed or canceled workflow, in the Restart Window attribute, use the spin boxes.

      If the restart window has elapsed, NetWorker considers the restart as a new run of the workflow. NetWorker calculates the restart window from the start of the last incomplete workflow. The default value is 24 hours.

      For example, if the Start Time is 7:00 PM, the Interval is 1 hour, and the Interval End is 11:00 PM., then the workflow automatically starts every hour beginning at 7:00 PM. and the last start time is 11:00 PM.

      NOTE:If the interval attribute is set with less than 24 hours and the vProxy backup schedule is set to run, level Full from backup action, manual start of the workflow will run level Incremental instead of level Full. Level Full backup will be run during manual start of workflow only if the Interval is changed to 24 hours in the Workflow.
9. To create the workflow, click OK.