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Setting up email notifications

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You can set up the system to send email notifications using the maintenance utility.

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Configuring email notifications

  1. In the maintenance utility Administration pane, select Alert Notifications.

  2. To send email notices, click Enable, next to Email Notice. Click Disable to not send email notices.

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  3. Click Add to add an email address to the list of registered addresses.

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  4. Enter the email address and then use the pull-down menu to select the type of address: To, Cc, or Bcc.

  5. Click OK to save the email address and close the dialog box.

  6. Enter an email address in Email Address (From).

  7. Enter an email address in Email Address (Reply To:).

  8. In Mail Server Settings, select the mail server type: Identifier, IPv4, or IPv6.

  9. To use SMTP authentication, click Enable.

  10. In Account, enter an SMTP account name.

  11. In Password, enter the SMTP account password.

  12. Click Apply to save the changes and close the Set Up Alert Notifications window.

    NoteIf SIMs are not transferred through email, verify the settings in the procedure. If all settings are correct, verify the settings and operating conditions of the mail server itself, and the operating conditions of the Management LAN.
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Sending a test email message

  1. Click the Email tab.

    The Email tab displays the current settings for the mail server, SMTP authentications, and email addresses.

  2. Click Send Test Email.

    A completion notice is displayed.

  3. Click OK to acknowledge the notice and close the message. Verify that the log (Detailed data: "RefCode: 7FFFFF, This is Test Report.") has been transferred to the Syslog server.

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Example of a test email message

 
Subject: VSP Gx00 Report 
DATE : 24/10/2014 
TIME : 10:09:30 
Machine : Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform Gx00 (Serial# 64019) 
RefCode : 7fffff 
Detail: This is Test Report.

The field definitions in the test email message are listed in the following table.

Item Description
Subject Email title (name of the storage system) + (report)
DATE Date when a system failure occurred.
TIME Time when a system failure occurred.
Machine Name and serial number of the storage system.
RefCode Reference code. The same code as the one reported by SNMP traps.
Detail Failure details. The same information as the one reported by SNMP traps.

See the SIM Reference Guide for reference codes and failure details.

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