APC Battery Management System manual DNS servers, Smtp settings, Setting Description Smtp Server

Battery Management System

USER’S GUIDE

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DNS servers

The Battery Management System cannot send any e-mail messages unless at least the IP address of the primary DNS server is defined.

See DNS.

The Battery Management System will wait a maximum of 15 seconds for a response from the primary DNS server or the secondary DNS server (if a secondary DNS server is specified). If the Battery Management System does not receive a response within that time, e-mail cannot be sent. Therefore, use DNS servers that are on the same segment as the Battery Management System, or on a nearby segment (but not across a wide-area network).

After you define the IP addresses of the DNS servers, verify that DNS is working correctly by entering the DNS name of a computer on your network to look up the IP address for the computer.

SMTP settings

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

Setting	Description
SMTP Server	The DNS name of the SMTP server.
From Address	The contents of the From field in the e-mail messages sent by
	the Battery Management System.
	Note: See the documentation for your SMTP server to determine
	whether you must use a valid user account on the server for this
	setting.

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