APC AP88XX, AP8886, AP8861 manual Active, Automatic, Direct Notification, Mail notification

Active, Automatic, Direct Notification

E-mail notification

Overview of setup. Use the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to send e-mail to up to four recipients when an event occurs.

To use the e-mail feature, you must define the following settings:

•The IP addresses of the primary and, optionally, the secondary Domain Name System (DNS) servers. (See “DNS” on page 62.)

•The IP address or DNS name for SMTP Server and From Address. (See “SMTP” on page 71.)

•The e-mail addresses for a maximum of four recipients. (See “E-mail recipients” on page 71.)

Note: You can use the To Address setting of the recipients option to send e-mail to a text-based mobile device.

SMTP.

Path: Administration > Notification > E-mail > server

Setting	Description
Local	The IPv4/IPv6 address or DNS name of the local SMTP server.
SMTP	Note:This definition is required only when SMTP Server is set to Local. See “E-mail recipi-
Server	ents” on page 71.
From	The contents of the From field in e-mail messages sent by the Rack PDU:
Address	• In the format user@ [IP_address] (if an IP address is specified as Local SMTP Server)
	• In the format user@domain (if DNS is configured and the DNS name is specified as Local
	SMTP Server) in the e-mail messages.
	Note:The local SMTP server may require that you use a valid user account on the server for this
	setting. See the server’s documentation.

E-mail recipients.

Path: Administration > Notification > E-mail > recipients

Identify up to four e-mail recipients.

Setting	Description
To Address	The user and domain names of the recipient. To use e-mail for paging, use the e-mail address
	for the recipient’s pager gateway account (for example, myacct100@skytel.com). The
	pager gateway will generate the page.
	To bypass the DNS lookup of the mail server’s IP address, use the IP address in brackets
	instead of the e-mail domain name, e.g., use jsmith@[xxx.xxx.x.xxx] instead of
	jsmith@company.com. This is useful when DNS lookups are not working correctly.
	Note:The recipient’s pager must be able to use text-based messaging.
E-mail	Enables (by default) or disables sending e-mail to the recipient.
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