Setting up email notifications on the appliance

The appliance can send email alerts when hardware and software components fail or encounter errors.

To configure email notifications

Log on to the Access Appliance shell menu.
From the Main_Menu > Settings > Alerts view, enter the following command to set the SMTP mail server:
Email SMTP Add <server> [[account]] [[password]]
Where <server> is the IP address or FQDN of your SMTP mail server.
Enter one or both of the following commands to set the email addresses that you want the appliance to send emails to:
Email Hardware Add <hardware_admin>
Email Software Add <software_admin>
Where <hardware_admin> is the email address of the appliance hardware administrator and <software_admin> is the email address of the appliance software administrator.
Note:
You can add multiple email addresses at once by separating them with a semi-colon (;). Do not add a space before or after the semi-colon.
Enter the following command to set the email account that you want the emails to originate from (sender email):
Email SenderID Set <sender_email>
Where <sender_email> is the email address that you want the appliance emails to originate from.
Enter the following command to set the time interval between email notifications:
Email NotificationInterval <minutes>
Where <minutes> is the time interval in minutes.
Enter the following command to verify the appliance email notification settings:
Email Show

Note:

Steps 4-6 are optional.

To configure email notifications:

Log on to the Access Appliance shell menu.
Enter the following command to set the SMTP mail server:
set alerts email-smtp smtp-server= smtp-account=
where smtp-server is the IP address or FQDN of your SMTP mail server and smtp-account is name of the user account that is used to access the SMTP server.
When prompted, enter the password for the user name if authentication is required to access the SMTP account.
Enter one or both of the following commands to set the email addresses that you want the appliance to send emails to:
set alerts email-hardware email-address=
set alerts email-software email-address=
where email-address is the email address of the appliance hardware administrator and the email address of the appliance software administrator.
Note:
Separate multiple email addresses using a semi-colon (;). Do not add a space before or after the semi-colon.
(Optional) Enter the following command to set the email account that you want the emails to originate from (sender email):
set alerts email-sender-id email-address=
where email-address is the email address that you want the appliance emails to originate from.
Enter the following command to set the time interval between email notifications:
set alerts email-notification-interval interval=
where interval is the time interval in minutes.
Tto verify the appliance email notification settings, enter the following command:
show alerts email