Uranium and Net Send: notify backup operations to
other PCs in the network
This brief example shows how to send to other network computers a notification to
warn of the beginning and of the end of Uranium's backup procedures, in order to
be immediately informed of the success of these.
Thanks to this feature, for example Uranium can report in real time to a user that
there have been errors during the backup on another PC.
To do this, we can simply use a Windows command line program, called "net send", giving to it few basic parameters. This program is able to send a short text message
to another computer connected to the local network.
Let's see below the simple configuration to be done on Uranium to send a message
when the backup ends.
First, let's click on the options of the Backup Set to which we want to add the
function of network notification:
Then, let's go in the panel "Other" and set up the options like shown in the image
below:
In the section of the "Actions to do AFTER...", you must check
the option "Run a program or a file:", then you must insert the "net send" command
like we can see it in the image above:
net send ["pc name in the network"] ["text to send"]
In this example we can see that there si also another option checked to do the sending
"Only if there have been some errors", ans so there is a text message to say that
there have been errors.
Obviously you can also write a different message and send it in any case, or only
when the backup has been completed successfully. You can add another message for
th "Actions to do BEFORE...", in order to notify that a specific backup is started.
We must apply these options using the proper button "Apply".
Note: in order to ensure that the program "net send" works, it
is necessary that the correspondig service is enabled, like we can see in the image
below:
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