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• Sender: Type in an alias of the switch in complete email address format, e.g. switch01@123.com, to
identify where the event log comes from.
• Authentication: Tick the checkbox to enable this function, configuring the email account and
password for authentication (when Email Alert enabled, this function will then be available).
• Mail Account: Set up the email account, e.g. Tomadmin, to receive the alert. It must be an existing
email account on the mail server, which you had set up in SMTP Server IP Address column.
• Password: Type in the password to the email account.
• Confirm Password: Reconfirm the password.
• Rcpt e-mail Address 1 ~ 6: You can also assign up to 6 e-mail accounts to receive the alert.
• Click .
Figure 3.17: SMTP Configuration
System Event Log—Event Configuration
When the Syslog/SMTP checkbox is ticked, the event log will be sent to system log server/SMTP server.
Also, per port log (link up, link down, and both) events can be sent to the system log server/SMTP server
with the respective checkbox ticked. After configuring, click ‘Apply’ to have the setting taken effect.
• System event selection: There are 4 event types—Device cold start, Device warm start,
Authentication Failure, and X-ring topology change. Before you can tick the checkbox of each event
type, the Syslog Client Mode column on the Syslog Configuration tab/E-mail Alert column on the SMTP
Configuration tab must be enabled first.
¾ Device cold start: When the device executes cold start action, the system will issue a log
event.
¾ Device warm start: When the device executes warm start, the system will issue a log event.
¾ Authentication Failure: When the SNMP authentication fails, the system will issue a log event.
¾ X-ring topology change: When the X-ring topology has changed, the system will issue a log
event.