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ION 7500 / ION 7600 User’s Guide Alerting via Email
Chapter 5 - Features and Applications Page 157
Alerting via Email
NOTE
For detailed information about setting up your network and building a framework for meter email
(MeterM@il) alerts, refer to the technical note
ION MeterM@il Internal Email Server Feature.
If email is specified as the destination address in the Alert module then an email
message is sent to any address you specify. You can only set one email address per
Alert module. If you want to send an alert to more than one email address you
need to create a group — be sure your email server is configured to send email to
groups via SMTP (Simple Message Transport Protocol).
Follow the steps below to send email alerts from your meter. Note that your meter
must support emailing (with a correctly configured SMTP server):
1. Create an Alert module.
2. Configure these Alert module setup registers as indicated:
Message – type in the text of the alert to be emailed.
Destination – type in the destination email address.
Type – select Email.
Com Port – select Ethernet.
Location – type in a custom string; this is optional, and appears in the email.
Email From – type in an address that you want the email to appear from. This
may be required as some SMTP servers only accept emails from valid
addresses.
3. Create an ION module that will produce a pulse on its Trigger output when the
exceptional event occurs (for example, a Setpoint module pulses its Tri gge r
output when the setpoint condition is reached).
4. Link the Alert module’s Tri gger input to the Tri gger output of the module created
in step 3.
5. Send and save. When the Trigger input is pulsed, the Alert module establishes
communications with the SMTP mail server, and emails the alert message.