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AMANDA-INTERACTIVIT(7)		  Miscellanea		AMANDA-INTERACTIVIT(7)

NAME
       amanda-interactivity - Configuring Interactivity with Amanda Amanda

DESCRIPTION
       Amanda uses interactivity to ask user to load specific volumes when
       they are needed. This manual page describes the interactivity modules
       included with Amanda.

       This is a user-level description of the API, and does not address
       details that are only of concern to developers of new interactivity
       plugins. For that purpose, consult the Amanda source code, perldoc
       'Amanda::Interactivity' and http://wiki.zmanda.com.

DEFINING INTERACTIVITY
       Interactivity is specified in amanda.conf(5) as follows:

       define interactivity $interactivity_name {
	  comment "$comment"
	  plugin "$pluginname"
	  property "$PROPERTY_NAME" "$PROPERTY_VALUE"
	  ...
       }
       and then referenced in the global section as

	 interactivity "$interactivity_name"

       Interactivity properties, like Amanda configuration parameters, are
       insensitive to case, and - (dash) and _ (underscore) may be used
       interchangeably.

       See the individual plugin sections, below for properties applicable to
       each plugin.

INTERACTIVITY MODULES
       Amanda provides three interactivity modules, tty, email and tty_email.

   TTY
       The tty interactivity module uses the tty to communicate with the user,
       it works only if a terminal is available, which is the case if amanda
       is executed from a command line.

       When promted for a volume, the user must put the requested volume in
       the changer and type <enter>. User can type the name of another changer
       if the volume is available in that changer. Typing 'abort' will abort
       the operation.

   EMAIL
       The email interactivity module uses email to send requests to the user,
       and reads replies from the filesystem.

       The email module has many properties:

       check-file

	   If set, amanda will check this file for user input.	The user can
	   touch the file to tell amanda that the requested volume was
	   inserted in the changer.  If the user writes the name of a changer
	   into the file, Amanda will use that changer.	 If the user writes
	   the word 'abort' into the file, the scan will be aborted.

       check-file-delay

	   Default: 10. This integer property indicates the time in seconds
	   between each check of the check-file.

       mailto

	   Default: global value of mailto.  The email addresses to which the
	   email should be sent.  If multiple addresses are given, they should
	   be separated by spaces.

       resend-delay

	   Default 0. The time in seconds between emails.  Amanda will resend
	   the same email at this frequency, which can be useful if mailto is
	   a pager or phone.  If set to 0, only one email is sent.

   TTY_EMAIL
       The tty_email interactivity module uses the tty module if a terminal is
       available and uses the email module otherwise. Its properties are a
       combination of properties from each module.

EXAMPLE
	 define interactivity "by-tty-or-email" {
	   comment "Send email on runs from cron; use terminal on command line"
	   plugin "tty_email"
	   property "mailto" "admin1" "admin2" "me@home"
	   property "resend-delay" "1800"		#every 30 minutes
	   property "check-file" "/tmp/email_input"
	   property "check-file-delay" "10"		#every 10 seconds
	 }

SEE ALSO
       amanda(8), amanda.conf(5)

       The Amanda Wiki: : http://wiki.zmanda.com/

AUTHOR
       Jean-Louis Martineau <martineau@zmanda.com>
	   Zmanda, Inc. (http://www.zmanda.com)

Amanda 3.3.3			  01/10/2013		AMANDA-INTERACTIVIT(7)
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