NetApp VFM Email Alerts

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