IBM Remote Supervisor Adapter II manual Configuring SMTP

6.Set up a community to define the administrative relationship between SNMP agents and SNMP managers. You must define at least one community. Each community definition consists of the following parameters:

vName

vIP address

vAccess Type (Refresh 2 or later firmware only)

If any of these parameters is not correct, SNMP management access is not granted.

Note: If an error message window opens, make the necessary adjustments to the fields that are listed in the error window. Then, scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save to save your corrected information. You must configure at least one community to enable this SNMP agent.

7.In the Community Name field, enter a name or authentication string to specify the community.

8.In the Access Type field, select an access type. Select Trap to allow all hosts in the community to receive traps; select Get to allow all hosts in the community to receive traps and query MIB objects; select Set to allow all hosts in the community to receive traps, query, and set MIB objects.

9.In the corresponding Host Name or IP Address field, enter the host name or IP address of each community manager.

10.If a DNS server is not available on your network, scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save. Otherwise, scroll to the Domain Name System (DNS) area. A page similar to the one in the following illustration is displayed.

11.If a DNS server (or servers) is available on your network, select Enabled in the DNS field. The DNS field specifies whether you use a DNS server on your network to translate host names into IP addresses.

12.If you enabled DNS, in the DNS server IP address fields, specify the IP addresses of up to three DNS servers on your network. Each IP address must contain integers from 0 through 255 separated by periods.

13.Scroll to the Telnet Protocol area. You can set the maximum number of concurrent Telnet users or disable Telnet access.

14.Scroll to the bottom of the page and click Save.

15.In the navigation pane, click Restart ASM to activate the changes.

Configuring SMTP

Complete the following steps to specify the IP address or host name of the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) server.

Note: If you plan to set up an SMTP server for e-mail alert notifications, make sure that the name in the Name field in the ASM Information area of the System Settings window is valid as part of an e-mail address (for example, there are no spaces).

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