How-to Enable Email Alerts for a Protection Job

Introduction

Expedient Service Delivery staff will perform a base configuration of a Protection Job inside the Cloud Data Protection platform. This does not include enabling any email-based alerts for failure. To create an email-based alert for failure, edit a job created by this team or yourself following the below procedure. Note that a ticket is automatically opened with the OSC for investigation upon job failure.

Procedure

1. Log in to the Cloud Data Protection system.
2. You should be directed to the Protection Jobs page upon logging into the cluster.
3. If you are not automatically directed to this page or are on a different page, from the navigation menu to the left of the page, select Data Protection → Protection
   
4. Locate the protection job you wish to enable alerts for and select Context Menu Icon (), then select Edit
    
5. Navigate to the Advanced section
6. Located Alerts & Priority  and select Edit
7. Verify the Check Box next to Failure is Selected and enter an email address(es) to alert upon failure.
   
8.  Select Protect to save your changes on Cancel to cancel them