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Network Management Card User’s Guide 50
Events Menu
Email Feature
Overview
You can use the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to send Email to
up to four recipients when an event occurs.
To use the Email feature, you must define the following settings:
• The IP addresses of the primary and secondary Domain Name
Service (DNS) servers, as described in DNS servers on this
page.
• The DNS name of the
SMTP Server
and the
From Address
settings for
SMTP, as described in
SMTP settings on this page
.
• The Email addresses for up to a maximum of four recipients, as
described in Email Recipients on page 51.
Note: You can use the
To Address
setting of the
Email
Recipients
option to send Email to a text-based pager.
DNS servers
The Management Card cannot send any Email messages unless at
least the IP address of the primary DNS server is defined. The
Email
(Web Interface) or
DNS
(Control Console) option in the
Network
menu
accesses the setting that you use to identify the primary and secondary
Domain Name Service (DNS) servers by their IP addresses.
The Management Card will only wait a maximum of 15 seconds for a
response from both the primary and secondary DNS servers. If the
Management Card does not get a response within that time, Email
cannot be sent. Therefore, use DNS servers that are on the same
segment as the Management Card, or on a nearby segment (but not
across a WAN).
Once you define the IP addresses of the DNS servers, verify that DNS
is working correctly by entering the DNS name of a computer on your
network to see if you can look up the IP address for that DNS name.
SMTP settings
The
Email
option in the
Network
menu accesses the following settings:
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SMTP Server
Defines the SMTP server by its DNS name.
Note: This definition is only required when the
Use SMTP
Server
option (see Email Recipients on page 51) is set
to
Local SMTP Server
.
From Address
Defines the contents of the
From
field in the Email messages
sent by the Management Card.
Note: The SMTP server’s configuration may require that you
use a valid user account on the server for this setting.
See the server’s documentation for more information.