HP StorageWorks Storage Mirroring user's guide (T2558-96073, February 2008)
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Filter Contents—Specify which Event Viewer messages that you want to be sent via e-mail. Specify Information,
Warning, and/or Error. You can also specify which Event Viewer messages to exclude based on the Event ID. Enter the
Event IDs as a comma or semicolon separated list. You can indicate ranges within the list.
NOTE: You can test e-mail notification by specifying the options on the E-mail Notification tab and clicking Test. If
desired, you can send the test message to a different e-mail address by selecting
Send To and entering a comma
or semicolon separated list of addresses. Modify the message text up to 1024 characters, if necessary. Click
Send to test the e-mail notification. The results will be displayed in a message box. Click OK to close the
message and click
Close to return to the E-mail Notification tab.
E-mail notification will not function properly if the application or system event logs are full. It is recommended
that:
These event logs be less than 80% full.
These event logs overwrite old events. Disable the option "Do not overwrite events."
The maximum size of these event logs be increased. Set the maximum size of the event logs to at least
1024 KB.
These settings can be accessed through the Event Viewer by right-clicking the Application log and selecting
Properties. Repeat this for the System log also.
If an error occurs while sending an e-mail, an Event message will be generated. This Event message will not
trigger an e-mail. Subsequent e-mail errors will not generate additional Event messages. When an e-mail is sent
successfully, an Event message will then be generated. If another e-mail fails, one Event message will again be
generated. This is a cyclical process where one Event message will be generated for each group of failed e-mail
messages, one for each group of successful e-mail messages, one for the next group of failed messages, and so
on.
If you start and then immediately stop the Storage Mirroring service, you may not get e-mail notifications for
the log entries that occur during startup.
By default, most virus scan software blocks unknown processes from sending traffic on port 25. You need to
modify the blocking rule so that Storage Mirroring e-mail messages are not blocked.