APC AP9312TH Configuring and Using Email Notification, Configuring Email Recipients, Menu options

Environmental Monitoring Unit

Configuring and Using Email Notification

Configuring Email Recipients

Menu options To identify up to four email recipients, use one of the following:

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

•The Email option of the Control Console’s Network Menu

Settings

	Setting	Description
	To Address	Defines the user and domain names of the recipient.
		To use email for paging, use the email address for the recipient’s
		pager gateway account (for example, myacct100@skytel.com). The
		pager gateway generates the page.
		Note: The recipient’s pager must be able to use text-based
		messaging.
	Send via	Lets you choose one of the following methods for routing email:
		• Send email through the Environmental Monitoring Unit’s SMTP
		server. Selecting Local SMTP Server, which is the recommended
		option, ensures that the email is sent before the unit’s 20-second
		timeout, and, if necessary, is retried several times.
		• Send email 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 timeout may prevent some email from being sent,
		With this option, the management card tries to send the email only
		once.
		When the recipient uses the Environmental Monitoring Unit’s SMTP
		server, this setting has no effect.
	Email	Enables (by default) or disables sending email to the defined
	Generation	recipient.
Configuring the	When you select the Local SNMP Server option for the Send via setting,
local SNMP server	you must do one of the following:
	• Make sure that forwarding is enabled at that server so that the
	server can route email to external SMTP servers.
	Note: Always see your SMTP-server administrator before
		changing the configuration of your SMTP server.
	• Set up a special email account for the Environmental Monitoring
	Unit. This account then forwards the Email to an external email
	account.
Testing Email	In the Web interface, use the Email Test option to send a test email
	message to a configured recipient.

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