Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Policy Notifications

You can define how a Data Protection Policy sends notifications in the Policy, Workflow, and Action resources.

The following table summarizes how the notification settings in each resource work together.

In the Policy resource, the following notification choices are available:

• Never —Select this option when you do not want to send any notifications.
• On Completion—Select this option when you want to send a notification on completion of the workflows and actions in the policy.
• On Failure—Select this option when you want to send a notification only if one or more of the workflows in the policy fail.

When you configure a notification at the policy level, NetWorker applies the notification to all workflows and actions in the policy that are not configured to send out notifications.

In the Workflow resource, the following notification choices are available:

• To use the notification configuration that is defined in the policy resource to send the notification, select Set a policy level.
• To send a workflow notification on completion of all the actions in the workflow, select On Completion.
• To send a workflow notification only if an action fails to complete, select On Failure.

When you configure a notification at the workflow level, the setting overrides what you defined at the policy level.

In the Action resource, the following notification choices are available:

• To use the notification configuration that is defined in the policy resource to send the notification, select Set a policy level.
• To send a notification on completion of the action, select On Completion.
• To send a notification only if the action fails to complete, select On Failure.

When you configure a notification at the action level, the setting overrides what you defined at the policy level. If you configured the Workflow resource to send out notifications, you will receive workflow notifications in addition to action notifications.