Email feature, Dns servers, Smtp settings – APC Network Management Card none User Manual

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Network Management Card User’s Guide

Events Menu

Email Feature

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 addresses of the primary and secondary Domain Name
Service (DNS) servers, as described in

DNS servers on this

page

•

The DNS name of the

SMTP Server

and the

From Address

settings for

SMTP, as described in

SMTP settings on this page

•

The Email addresses for up to a maximum of four recipients, as
described in

Email Recipients on page 51

Note:

You can use the

To Address

setting of the

Email

Recipients

option to send Email to a text-based pager.

DNS servers

The Management Card cannot send any Email messages unless at
least the IP address of the primary DNS server is defined. The

Email

(Web Interface) or

DNS

(Control Console) option in the

Network

accesses the setting that you use to identify the primary and secondary
Domain Name Service (DNS) servers by their IP addresses.

The Management Card will only wait a maximum of 15 seconds for a
response from both the primary and secondary DNS servers. If the
Management Card does not get a response within that time, Email
cannot be sent. Therefore, use DNS servers that are on the same
segment as the Management Card, or on a nearby segment (but not
across a WAN).

Once 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 see if you can look up the IP address for that DNS name.

SMTP settings

The

Email

option in the

Network

menu accesses the following settings:

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SMTP Server

Defines the SMTP server by its DNS name.

Note:

This definition is only required when the

Use SMTP

Server

option (see

Email Recipients on page 51

) is set

Local SMTP Server

From Address

Defines 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.