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USER’S GUIDE

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PDU

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E-mail test.

Path: Administration>Notification>E-mail>test

Send a test message to a configured recipient.

SMTP
Server

Select one of the following methods for routing e-mail:

Local

: Through the Rack PDU’s SMTP server. This setting (recommended)

ensures that the e-mail is sent before the Rack PDU’s 20-second time-out, and, if
necessary, is retried several times. Also do one of the following:

• Enable forwarding at the Rack PDU’s SMTP server so that it can route e-mail to

external SMTP servers. Typically, SMTP servers are not configured to forward
e-mail. Check with the administrator of your SMTP server before changing its
configuration to allow forwarding.

• Set up a special e-mail account for the Rack PDU to forward e-mail to an

external mail account.

Recipient

: Directly to the recipient’s SMTP server. With this setting, the Rack

PDU tries to send the e-mail only once. On a busy remote SMTP server, the time-
out may prevent some e-mail from being sent.

When the recipient uses the Rack PDU’s SMTP server, this setting has no effect.

E-mail
Generation

Enables (by default) or disables sending e-mail to the recipient.

Format

The long format contains Name, Location, Contact, IP address, serial number of
the device, date and time, event code, and event description. The short format
provides only the event description.

Setting

Description