Assigning recipients to receive notifications for specific alert categories

Last published : Apr 02, 2026
After you have set up notification recipients, you should determine the alert categories for which they should receive notifications. For example, some recipients may only want to receive notifications about job failures and tape errors while other recipients may want to receive notifications for all error alert categories.
To assign recipients to receive notifications for specific alert categories
  1. Click the Backup Exec button, and then select Configuration and Settings.
  2. Select Alerts and Notifications, and then selectAlert Categories.
  3. Select an alert category from the list.
  4. If the category is not enabled, click Enable alerts for this category.
  5. Under Send notification to the following recipients, check the check box next to the name of every recipient that needs to receive notifications for the selected alert category.
  6. Click OK.
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