Events Menu

Email

Overview

You can use the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to send Email to

 

up to four recipients when an event occurs.

 

To use the Email feature, you must define the following settings:

 

• The IP address of the Domain Name Service (DNS) server

 

• The DNS name of the SMTP server and the From Address set-

 

tings for SMTP

 

• The Email addresses for a maximum of four recipients

 

Note: You can use the Email feature to page an Email recipi-

 

 

ent who uses a text-based pager gateway. For more

 

 

information, see the description of the To Address set-

 

 

ting in Email recipients on page 57.

DNS server

The Management Card cannot send any Email messages unless the

 

DNS server is defined. The TCP/IP & DNS (Web interface) or DNS

 

(Control Console) option in the Network menu accesses the setting that

 

you use to identify the Domain Name Service (DNS) server by its IP

 

address.

 

 

 

If the Management Card does not receive a response from the DNS

 

server within five seconds, Email cannot be sent. Therefore, use a DNS

 

server that is on the same segment as the Management Card, or on a

 

nearby segment (but not across a WAN).

 

Once you define the DNS server’s IP address, verify that DNS is

 

working correctly by entering the DNS name of a computer on your

 

network to obtain the IP address for that DNS name.

SMTP settings

The Email option in the Network menu accesses the following settings:

 

 

 

 

 

Setting

 

Description

 

 

 

 

 

SMTP Server

 

The DNS name of the SMTP server.

 

 

 

 

 

From Address

 

The contents of the From field in the Email messages sent by

 

 

 

the Management Card.

 

 

 

Note: The SMTP server’s configuration may require that you

 

 

 

use a valid user account on the server for this setting.

 

 

 

See the server’s documentation for more information.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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APC AP9606 manual Ting in Email recipients on

AP9606 specifications

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