Configuring Email Notification Settings

You can specify email notification settings for automated delivery of job results and daily reports. To connect an email service that will be used for sending email notifications:

1. Switch to the Configuration page.
2. Navigate to Settings > Email.
3. Select the Enable email notifications check box.
4. Click the link in the Email service field and configure mail server settings.

6. In the From field, enter an email address of the notification sender. This email address will be displayed in the From field of notifications.
7. In the To field, enter an email address of a recipient. Use a semicolon to separate multiple recipient addresses.
8. In the Subject field, specify a subject for notifications. You can use the following runtime variables:

• %JobName% — a job name.
• %JobResult% — a job result.
• %ObjectCount% — the number of VMs or PDs in a job.

9. Choose whether you want to receive email notifications in case jobs complete successfully, complete with warnings or complete with errors.

10. Select the Suppress notifications until the last retry check box to receive a notification about the final job status. If you do not enable this option, the Nutanix AHV backup appliance will send one notification per every job retry.
11. Click Apply.

Configuring Mail Server Settings

To configure mail server settings, choose whether you want to employ Basic (SMTP) or Modern (OAuth 2.0) authentication for your mail service.

Using Basic Authentication

To employ the Basic authentication to connect to your mail server, in the Email Server Settings window:

1. From the Mail service drop-down list, select Basic.
2. In the Mail server name or address field, enter a DNS name or an IP address of the SMTP server. All email notifications (including test messages) will be sent by this SMTP server.
3. In the Port field, specify a communication port for SMTP traffic. If SSL is enabled, the default SMTP port is 587, otherwise port 25 is used.
4. In the Timeout field, specify a connection timeout for responses from the SMTP server.
5. For an SMTP server with SSL/TLS support, select the Connect using SSL check box to enable SSL data encryption.
6. If your SMTP server requires authentication, select the This SMTP server requires authentication check box and specify credentials that will be used to connect to the SMTP server.
7. Click Save.

Using Modern Authentication

To employ the Modern authentication to connect to your mail server:

1. In Email Server Settings window, copy the URL from the Redirect URL field.
2. For Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV to be able to use OAuth 2.0 to access Google Cloud or Microsoft Azure APIs, register a new client application either in the Google Cloud console or in the Microsoft Azure portal.
3. When registering the application, make sure that the redirect URI specified for the application matches the URL copied from the Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV web console.
4. Back to the Veeam Backup for Nutanix AHV Web UI, do the following in Email Server Settings window:

1. Use the Mail service drop-down list to choose whether the server that you want to use to send email notifications is a Google or Microsoft mail server.
2. In the Application client ID and Client secret fields, provide the Client ID and Client secret created for the application as described in Google Cloud documentation or Microsoft Docs.
3. [Applies only if you have selected the Microsoft option] In the Tenant ID field, provide the ID of an Azure AD tenant in which the application has been registered.
4. Click Authorize. You will be redirected to the authorization page. Sign in using a Google or Microsoft Azure account to validate the configured settings.