Alert response options

You can respond to active alerts and depending on the alert condition, you can either continue or cancel the operation.

See Responding to active alerts.

Table: Alert response options

Item

Description

Category Name

Shows the title of the alert.

Message

Describes the event that caused the alert and provides suggestions for responding to the alert.

Click here for more information: V-XXX-XXXXX

Appears if a TechNote is associated with an error. Click the Unique Message Identifier (UMI), which starts with the letter V, and appears as a blue hyperlink. A new browser window opens to the Symantec Technical Support Web site.

If the computer does not have access to the Internet, you can type the following URL in a browser window on another computer:

http://entsupport.symantec.com/umi/<UMI Code>

Server name

Shows the name of the computer on which the alert occurred.

Device name

Shows the name of the device on which the alert occurred.

Job name

Shows the name of the job that is associated with the alert.

Time

Shows the date and time the alert occurred.

Automatically display new alerts

Enables alerts to appear automatically on the Backup Exec console when they are sent. If you do not select this option, you must respond to alerts through the Active Alerts pane.

Note:

Alerts that require a response always appear on the Backup Exec console.

See Changing application settings for Backup Exec preferences.

View job log

Lets you view the job log for the job that triggered the alert.

Automatically respond to and clear all alerts in the category

Lets you provide automatic responses for this alert. You must select the amount of time to wait before a response is provided and select the response.

See Configuring automatic responses for alert categories.

Alert response options