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You may also enter a Username and Password if the SMTP server requires authentication.

You can specify the specific Subject Line that will be sent with the email.

Click Apply to activate SMTP.

7.1.2 SMS Alerts

The console server uses email-to-SMS services to send SMS alert notifications to mobile devices. Sending SMS via email using SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol) is much faster than sending text pages via a modem using the TAP Protocol. Almost all mobile phone carriers provide an SMS gateway service that forwards email to mobile phones on their networks. There’s also a wide selection of SMS gateway aggregators that provide email to SMS forwarding to phones on any carriers. To use SMTP SMS, the Administrator must configure a valid SMTP server for sending the email:

Figure 7-2. SMTP SMS Server screen.

In the SMTP SMS Server field in the Alerts & Logging: SMTP &SMS menu, enter the IP address of the outgoing mail Server (and Secure Connection if applicable).

You may enter a Sender email address, which will appear as the “from” address in all email notifications sent from this console server. Some SMS gateway service providers only forward email to SMS when the email has been received from authorized senders. You might need to assign a specific authorized email address for the console server.

You may also enter a Username and Password, because some SMS gateway service providers use SMTP servers which require authentication.

You can specify the specific Subject Line that will be sent with the email. Generally, the email subject will contain a truncated version of the alert notification message (which is contained in full in the body of the email). However some SMS gateway service providers require blank subjects or require specific authentication headers to be included in the subject line.

Click Apply to activate SMTP.

7.1.3 SNMP Alerts

The Administrator can configure the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) agent that resides on the console server to send SNMP trap alerts to an NMS management application:

Select Alerts & Logging: SNMP

Enter the SNMP transport protocol. SNMP is generally a UDP-based protocol, though infrequently, it uses TCP instead.

Enter the IP address of the SNMP Manager and the Port to use for connecting (default = 162)

Select the version being used. The console server SNMP agent supports SNMP v1, v2, and v3.

Enter the Community name for SNMP v1 or 2c. An SNMP community is the group that devices and management stations running SNMP belong to. It helps define where information is sent. SNMP default communities are private for Write (and public for Read).

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