Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Creating a policy

1. In the Administration window, click Protection.
2. In the expanded left pane, right-click Policies, and then select New.
   The Create Policy dialog box appears.
3. On the General tab, in the Name field, type a name for the policy.
   The maximum number of characters for the policy name is 64.
   • Legal Characters: _ - + = # , . % @
   • Illegal Characters: /\*:?[]()$!^;'"`~><&|{}

   NOTE:After you create a policy, the Name attribute is read-only.
4. In the Comment field, type a description for the policy.
5. From the Send Notifications list, select whether to send notifications for the policy:
   • To avoid sending notifications, select Never.
   • To send notifications with information about each successful and failed workflow and action, after the policy completes all the actions, select On Completion.
   • To send a notification with information about each failed workflow and action, after the policy completes all the actions, select On Failure.
6. 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.

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

   • 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, to send a notification email, 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.

7. To specify the Restricted Data Zone (RDZ) for the policy, select the Restricted Data Zones tab, and then select the RDZ from the list.
8. Click OK.