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E-mail feature, Overview, Dns servers – APC Network Management Card AP9617 User Manual

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USER’S GUIDE

network management card

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E-mail Feature

Overview

You can use the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to send e-mail to a
maximum of four recipients when an event occurs.

To use the E-mail 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

• The DNS name of the

SMTP Server

and the

From Address

settings

for SMTP, as described in

SMTP settings

• The e-mail addresses for a maximum of four recipients, as described in

Email Recipients

DNS servers

The Management Card cannot send any e-mail messages unless the IP
address of the primary DNS server is defined (see

DNS

).

The Management Card will wait a maximum of 15 seconds for a response
from both the primary and (if specified) the secondary DNS servers. If the
Management Card does not receive a response within that time, e-mail
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 test whether you can look up the IP address for that DNS name.

You can use the

To Address

setting of the

Email Recipients

option to send e-mail to a text-based pager.