Users Guide

Configuring Email Alert Settings Using CMC Web Interface
To configure the email alert settings using Web interface:
1. In the left pane, click Chassis Overview > Alerts > E-mail Alert Settings.
2. Specify the SMTP email server settings and the email addresses to receive the alerts. For information about the field descriptions, see
the Online Help.
3. Click Apply to save the settings.
4. Click Send under Test E-mail to send a test email to the specified email alert destination.
Configuring EMail Alert Settings Using RACADM
To send a test email to an email alert destination using RACADM:
1. Open a serial/Telnet/SSH text console to CMC and log in.
2. Enable alert generation:
racadm config -g cfgAlerting -o cfgAlertingEnable 1
NOTE: Only one filter mask may be set by both SNMP and email alerting. If you have already set a filter mask, do not
perform the task in step 3.
3. Specify the events for which alerts must be generated:
racadm config -g cfgAlerting -o cfgAlertingFilterMask <mask value>
where <mask value> is a hexadecimal value between 0x0 and 0xffffffff and must be expressed with the leading 0x characters. The
Event Traps Filter Masks table provides filter masks for each event type. For instructions about calculating the hex value for the filter
mask you want to enable, see step 3 in the Configuring SNMP Trap Alert Destinations Using RACADM.
4. Enable email alert generation:
racadm config -g cfgEmailAlert -o cfgEmailAlertEnable 1 -i <index>
where <index> is a value between 1–4. CMC uses the index number to distinguish up to four destination email addresses that can be
configured.
5. Specify a destination email address to receive the email alerts:
racadm config -g cfgEmailAlert -o cfgEmailAlertAddress <email address> -i <index>
where <email address> is a valid email address, and <index> is the index value you specified in step 4.
6. Specify the name of the person receiving the email alert:
racadm config -g cfgEmailAlert -o cfgEmailAlertEmailName <email name> -i <index>
where <email name> is the name of the person or group receiving the email alert, and <index> is the index value specified in step
4 and step 5. The email name can contain up to 32 alphanumeric characters, dashes, underscores, and periods. Spaces are not valid.
7. Set up the SMTP host:
racadm config -g cfgRemoteHosts -o cfgRhostsSmtpServerIpAddr host.domain
where host.domain is the FQDN.
You can configure up to four destination email addresses to receive email alerts. To add more email addresses, perform tasks in step 2
through 6.
NOTE:
The commands in steps 2–6 overwrite any existing settings configured for the index that you specify (1–4).
To determine whether an index has previously configured values, type racadm getconfig -g cfgEmailAlert —
I <index>. If the index is configured, values appear for the cfgEmailAlertAddress and
cfgEmailAlertEmailName objects.
For more information, see the Chassis Management Controller for PowerEdge VRTX RACADM Command Line Reference Guide
available at dell.com/support/manuals.
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