Questions[symantec](server)

I have Symantec Netbackup 7.0 on windows 2008. I have configured backup jobs. I want it to send me notofications about successful and failed backups.

I can receive notifications about failed backups not about successful ones.

I have done the following steps:

1. I've indicated in "Master Server"->Porperties->"Global Attributes"->"Administrator email address" <-that'why I can receive notif. about failed jobs

2. Also I have written mail address in "Master Server"->Porperties->"Universal Settings"->"Client administrator's email" (have checked "Server sends mail" radio button)

3. Also I have written email address in "Clients"->Porperties->"Universal Settings"->"Client administrator's email"(have checked "Client sends mail" radio button)

What to do? As I said before, I can't get mails about successful jobs.

We have SEP 12.1 RU1 Small Business Edition and we're deploying to Windows 2008 R2 machines. It seems that SEP is disabling the native firewall. Has anyone seen this?

Specifically, The SEP Firewall policy on the management server does not have the "Enable this Firewall Policy" checkbox checked -- that is, the policy is disabled. I've pushed the client out to some of our servers and the client is modifying the native Windows firewall, Windows now shows that the native firewall is "Active", but it's also "managed by Symantec" and if you look at the list of active rules there are none. I've confirmed that the firewall is indeed not active by accessing the server on ports that should be blocked. I've also confirmed that I'm setting up the native firewall correctly by doing the same config on another server that doesn't yet have SEP and traffic gets blocked.

Has anyone configured SEP 12.1 SBE and left the native Windows firewall enabled? If so, how? And before you suggest I just enable the SEP firewall, I'd need a different policy for each server as there are different needs/services on each server so that just seems like a silly thing to do.

We have Backup Exec 11d for windows server running on windows server that currently backups up our data on tape drive. We purchased an 500GB RDX drive to replace the tape drives but cannot get Backup Exec 11d to recognize our RDX device on windows server? It does not show up under devices tab in backup exec. It is however visible in disk management and works for all other uses. I am thinking it could be the version of backup exec?

Any solutions?

Thanks

Should I run a server-specific antivirus, regular antivirus, or no antivirus at all on my servers, particularly my Domain Controllers?

Here's some background about why I'm asking this question:

I've never questioned that antivirus software should be running on all windows machines, period. Lately I've had some obscure Active Directory related issues that I have tracked down to antivirus software running on our domain controllers.

The specific issue was that Symantec Endpoint Protection was running on all domain controllers. Occasionally, our Exchange server triggered a false-positive in Symantec's "Network Threat Protection" on each DC in sequence. After exhausting access to all DCs, Exchange began refusing requests, presumably because it could not communicate with any Global Catalog servers or perform any authentication.

Outages would last about ten minutes at a time, and would occur once every few days. It took a long time to isolate the problem because it was not easily reproducible and generally investigation was done after the issue resolved itself.

I need a tool to automatically remove Symantec AV (~v10.0) from desktops when the uninstall password is not known or the install is corrupt. I know some AV products will do this for you if they can (Trend sometimes) but in other cases it would be great not to have to remove it manually since this is about 33 steps.