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HP Systems Insight Manager User Manual

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1.

Access the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) host and CMS e-mail settings through the First Time
Wizard or choose Options

EventsAutomatic Event HandlingEmail Settings. The Email

Settings

page appears.

2.

Enter the SMTP host name. The SMTP host is the outgoing e-mail server that the CMS will use to send
e-mail notifications.

3.

Enter the e-mail address that the management server will use when sending e-mail notifications in the
Sender's e-mail address

box.

4.

To authenticate your SMTP server, select Server Requires Authentication.

5.

Enter the account user name and password in the corresponding boxes.

6.

If you are using the First Time Wizard, click Next to go to the next step.

Note If you did not enter a valid SMTP host, HP SIM notifies you that it will not be able to send e-mail
notifications. Click OK, if you do not want to enter e-mail settings now, or click Cancel and enter a
valid SMTP host.

If you are changing the e-mail settings from the Options

EventsAutomatic Event HandlingEmail

Settings

page, click OK to save changes.

NOTE:

If the Server Requires Authentication option is selected, and you enter incorrect account

information, e-mail event notifications will not reach the intended recipients.

Additional e-mail settings

To have user defined information (from the e-mail information on the Actions page) displayed first on the
subject line of an e-mail, you must change the

EmailPrefixUserSubject property in the

globalsettings.props

file to True. Otherwise, HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) defined information

is displayed first. The globalsettings.props file is located at:

On Windows

It is typically located at C:\Program Files\HP\Systems Insight

Manager\config\globalsettings.props

.

On HP-UX and Linux

It is located at /etc/opt/mx/config/globalsettings.props.

The HP SIM service should be restarted after the flag is set. To restart:

If EmailPrefixUserSubject = false

The format of the subject line is Device Name: Short Description

from Alert: User's Defined Subject.

If EmailPrefixUserSubject = true

The format of the email subject line is User's Defined Subject: Device

Name: Short Description from Alert.

IMPORTANT:

This property does not need to be configured for the e-mail feature to work. This property

is automatically set to false in the globalsettings.props file and does not need to be changed unless
you want user defined text to appear before the HP SIM text in the subject line.

Related procedures

Managing event handling tasks

Creating an automatic event handling task

Configuring event filters for registered SNMP traps

Configuring modem settings for paging

Configuring status change events

Configuring SNMP traps

WBEM indications

Related topics

First Time Wizard

Events

About administering events

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