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Note that email notifications cannot use an SSL connection. If the email server requires SSL, configure email notification to use the local host SMTP server, and make sure that DNS and SMTP are set up and running on the VTL server node.

The email account password is stored in plain text, so set up an account that the SMTP server will use exclusively for email notification.

3.Use the Interval controls provided (D above) to specify the frequency with which notifications are sent. Then press OK (E).

4.When the Set Email Alerts Signature Properties panel appears, enter the email signature that should appear in each notification, and press Next.

5.When the Set Email Alerts Trigger Properties panel appears, check the check boxes for the scripts that should trigger an email (F below). Then press

Next (G).

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Default scripts include the following:

■chkcore.sh 10 notifies the administrator if a new core file is found in the VTL bin directory. New core files are compressed and the originals are deleted, along with older compressed core files that exceed the maximum (10 is the default).

■kfsnmem.sh 10 notifies the administrator if the maximum number of memory pages has not been set or if the number of available pages fall below a predefined percentage.

■memchk.sh 5 notifies the administrator if the available system memory falls below a pre-defined percentage.

■ipstorsyslogchk.sh notifies the administrator if any instances of a pre- defined set of messages appear in the system log

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