Acronis Backup for VMware 9 - User Guide User Manual

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Use encryption – you can opt for the encrypted connection to the mail server and choose SSL or TLS
encryption types.

Click Send test e-mail message to make sure all your settings are correct.

2) SNMP notifications

This option defines whether the agent(s) operating on the managed machine have to send the logs of
the backup operation events to the specified Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
managers. You can choose the types of events to be sent. The default setting for this option is:
Disabled.

Select whether to send the backup operation events log messages to machines running SNMP
management applications, please, choose one of the following:

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Do not send SNMP notifications – to disable sending the events log of the backup operations to
SNMP managers.

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Send SNMP notifications individually for backup operation events – to send the events log of
the backup operations to the specified SNMP managers.
Type of events to send – choose the types of events to be sent: Information, Warnings or Errors.
Server name or it's IP – type the name or IP address of the host running the SNMP management
application where the notifications will be sent to.
Community – type the name of the SNMP community to which both the host running the SNMP
management application and the sending machine belong. The typical community is public.
Click Send test message to make sure all your settings are correct.

SNMP objects

Acronis vmProtect 9 provides the following Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) objects to
SNMP management applications:

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Type of event
Object identifier (OID): 1.3.6.1.4.1.24769.100.200.1.0
Syntax: OctetString
The value may be “Information”, “Warning”, “Error” and “Unknown”. “Unknown” is sent only in
the test message.

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Text description of the event
Object identifier (OID): 1.3.6.1.4.1.24769.100.200.2.0
Syntax: OctetString
The value contains the text description of the event (it looks identical to messages published by
Acronis vmProtect 9 in its log).

Example of varbind values:

1.3.6.1.4.1.24769.100.200.1.0:Information

1.3.6.1.4.1.24769.100.200.2.0:I0064000B

Supported operations

Acronis vmProtect 9 supports only TRAP operations. It is not possible to manage Acronis vmProtect
9 using GET- and SET- requests. This means that you need to use an SNMP Trap receiver to receive
TRAP-messages.