Messages initiated by a threshold procedure may be lost if the boot window is not present. Adaptive Server has no mechanism for intercepting a Tabular Data Stream (TDS) received from other servers; the TDS is merely passed on to the client. Threshold procedures have no “client,” so messages from Backup Server to these tasks will not appear unless you specify otherwise.
You must specify notify=operator_console if the dump is invoked by a stored procedure, including sp_thresholdaction; this is an issue for volume change prompts, for example, to which you cannot respond if you never see them.
