APC AP9211 Configuring and Using E-mail Notification, Configuring E-mail Recipients, Menu options

MasterSwitch Power Distribution Unit

Configuring and Using E-mail Notification

Configuring E-mail Recipients

Menu options To identify up to four e-mail recipients, use one of the following:

•The Recipients option of the Web interface’s Events menu

•The E-mailoption of the Control Console’s Network Menu

Settings

	Setting	Description
		Defines the user and domain names of the recipient.
		To use e-mail for paging, use the e-mail address for the recipient’s
	To	pager gateway account (for example, myacct100@skytel.com). The
	Address	pager gateway generates the page.
		Note: The recipient’s pager must be able to use text-based
		messaging.
		Lets you choose one of the following methods for routing e-mail:
		• Send e-mail through the Management Card’s SMTP server.
		Selecting Local SMTP Server, which is the recommended option,
		ensures that the e-mail is sent before the unit’s 20-second time-out,
	Send via	and, if necessary, is retried several times.
		• Send e-mail directly to the recipient’s remote SMTP server. If you
		select the Recipient’s SMTP Server option, and the remote SMTP
		server is busy, the time-out may prevent some e-mail from being
		sent, With this option, the management card tries to send the e-mail
		only once.
	E-mail	Enables (by default) or disables sending e-mail to the defined
	Generation	recipient.
Configuring the	When you select the Local SMTP Server option for the Send via
local SMTP server	setting, you must do one of the following:
	• Make sure that forwarding is enabled at that server so that the
	server can route e-mail to external SMTP servers.
	Note: Always see your SMTP-server administrator before
		changing the configuration of your SMTP server.
	• Set up a special e-mail account for the Management Card.
	This account then forwards the E-mail to an external e-mail
	account.
Testing E-mail	In the Web interface, use the E-mail Test option to send a test e-mail
	message to a configured recipient.

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