Configure mail server and recipients for alerts
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To configure email alerts, you must specify a mail server address and the email addresses of the alert recipients. Up to 20 email addresses are allowed.
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The address of the mail server must be available. The address can be an IPv4 or IPv6 address, or a fully qualified domain name.
To use a fully qualified domain name, you must configure a DNS server on both controllers. You can configure a DNS server from the Hardware page.
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Email address to be used as the alert sender must be available. This is the address that appears in the "From" field of the alert message. A sender address is required in the SMTP protocol; without it, an error results.
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Email address(es) of the alert recipient(s) must be available. The recipient is typically an address for a network administrator or storage administrator. You can enter up to 20 email addresses.
This task describes how to configure the mail server, enter email addresses for the sender and recipients, and test all the email addresses entered from the Alerts page.
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Email alerts can also be configured from the Initial Setup wizard. |
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Select .
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Select the Email tab.
If an email server is not yet configured, the Email tab displays "Configure Mail Server."
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Select Configure Mail Server.
The Configure Mail Server dialog box opens.
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Enter the mail server information, and then click Save.
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Mail server address — Enter a fully qualified domain name, IPv4 address, or IPv6 address of the mail server.
To use a fully qualified domain name, you must configure a DNS server on both controllers. You can configure a DNS server from the Hardware page.
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Email sender address — Enter a valid email address to be used as the sender of the email. This address appears in the "From" field of the email message.
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Encryption — If you want to encrypt messages, select either SMTPS or STARTTLS for the encryption type, and then select the port number for encrypted messages. Otherwise, select None.
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User name and password — If needed, enter a user name and password for authentication with the outgoing sender and the mail server.
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Include contact information in email — To include the sender's contact information with the alert message, select this option, and then enter a name and phone number.
After you click Save, the email addresses appear in the Email tab of the Alerts page.
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Select Add Emails.
The Add Emails dialog box opens.
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Enter one or more email addresses for the alert recipients, and then click Add.
The email addresses appear on the Alerts page.
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If you want to make sure the email addresses are valid, click Test All Emails to send test messages to the recipients.
After you configure email alerts, the event monitor sends email messages to the specified recipients whenever an alertable event occurs.