HP Instant Capacity User's Guide for versions B.07.x

Special Considerations
Configuring E-Mail on Instant Capacity Systems
Appendix A 143
Configuring E-Mail on Instant Capacity
Systems
E-Mail Requirements
Previous versions of the Instant Capacity software required e-mail
connectivity to HP in order to send asset reports as encrypted e-mail
messages. Instant Capacity versions B.07.x no longer requires e-mail
connectivity or asset reporting, however, you may choose to configure it
because it can be useful for viewing complex-wide asset information at
the HP Utility Pricing Solutions portal
(http://www.hp.com/go/icod/portal).
NOTE E-mail asset reporting is set to “on” by default when the Instant Capacity
B.07.x software is installed. You turn asset reporting on or off with the
icod_notify -a command/option. You can view the current setting of
e-mail asset reporting in the Asset reporting field, near the beginning
of the icod_stat command’s output.
For e-mail connectivity, the requirements are:
• The Instant Capacity system/partition should have sendmail
installed and configured such that it has the ability to send e-mail to
the hp.com domain.
• The domain name in the Instant Capacity FROM e-mail address, for
the e-mail sent from the Instant Capacity system to HP, must be
DNS resolvable by HP. See “Configuring Instant Capacity’s FROM
E-mail Address” on page 148 for details.
IMPORTANT The e-mail is bounced/rejected by the mail servers at HP if the domain
name in the FROM address, for the e-mail sent from the Instant Capacity
system to HP, is not DNS resolvable by HP.
Note that the sendmail configuration and routing may vary, but the
system must have the ability to send e-mail to the hp.com domain.