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NetApp VFM Email Alerts

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I spent a few hours doddling around with how to do email alerting with the provided VFM scripts. I finally ended up rewriting things just a little, but below is the basics of how to configure VFM to use email alerting.

A quick note, this most likely applies for the Brocade StorageX product as NetApp rebrands StorageX to work with NetApp filers.

This is going to be fairly short and sweet, not a lot of tricks to doing this.

  1. Browse to C:Program FilesNetAppVFMExamplesScriptsReplication (or your install location)
  2. Copy PreEmail.bat and PostEmail.bat to C:scripts
  3. Open PreEmail.bat and modify the line:
    %MailUtil% %MailFile% -to %4 -subject “StorageX replication commencing for link ‘%1′” -q
    to
    blat %MailFile% -t {your to email address} -s “Replication commensing for ‘%2′” -f {from email} -server {smtp server} -port 25
  4. Open PostEmail.bat and modify the line:
    %MailTool% %MailFile% -to %9 -subject “StorageX replication ended for link ‘%SXLink%'” -q
    to
    blat %MailFile% -t {your to email address} -s “Replication ended for ‘%SXLink%'” -f {from email} -server {smtp server} -port 25
  5. Then go to the VFM console
  6. Edit the properties of your replication job
  7. click Replication Scripting
  8. Add the two files
  9. and you’re done