A small yet nice new feature in NetWorker 8.1 is a limited form of parameter expansion in NetWorker notification action entries.
I spotted this in the Scheduled Clone Notification:
name: Scheduled Clone Completion;
action: "/bin/mail -s \"orilla scheduled cloning '${NSR clone}' completion\" root";
This isn’t something that’s heavily documented, but it was fairly easy to intuit that was likely to be a variable instantiation of the invoking resource name, and a quick test verified that theory to be correct.
So, I decided to play around with everyone’s favourite notification: Savegroup Completion:
name: Savegroup completion;
action: "/bin/mail -s \"orilla savegroup '${NSR group}' completion\" root";
Sure enough, savegroup completion email subjects were populated with the group name:
From: root <root@orilla.turbamentis.int> To: root <root@orilla.turbamentis.int> Subject: orilla savegroup 'Staging Servers' completion
It’s not an earth shattering change in NetWorker, but it’s certainly a nice-to-have.