
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
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| To Address | Defines the user and domain names of the recipient. |
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| To use email for paging, use the email address for the recipient’s |
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| pager gateway account (for example, myacct100@skytel.com). The |
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| pager gateway generates the page. |
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| Note: The recipient’s pager must be able to use |
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| messaging. |
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| Send via | Lets you choose one of the following methods for routing email: |
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| • Send email through the Environmental Monitoring Unit’s SMTP |
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| server. Selecting Local SMTP Server, which is the recommended |
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| option, ensures that the email is sent before the unit’s |
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| timeout, and, if necessary, is retried several times. |
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| • Send email directly to the recipient’s remote SMTP server. If you |
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| select the Recipient’s SMTP Server option, and the remote SMTP |
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| server is busy, the timeout may prevent some email from being sent, |
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| With this option, the management card tries to send the email only |
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| once. |
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| When the recipient uses the Environmental Monitoring Unit’s SMTP |
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| server, this setting has no effect. |
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| Enables (by default) or disables sending email to the defined | |
| Generation | recipient. |
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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 | |
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| 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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