Administrator Guide

• Activity Progress Reporting. Provides access to the activity progress interface using HTTP port 8081. This mechanism reports

whether a firmware update or partner firmware update operation is active and shows the progress through each step of the

operation. When the update operation completes, status is presented indicating either the successful completion, or an error

indication if the operation failed.

• In-band SES Capability. Used for in-band monitoring of system status based on SCSI Enclosure Services (SES) data. This service

operates through the data path and can slightly reduce I/O performance. SES is disabled by default.

3. Perform one of the following:

• To save your settings and continue configuring your system, click Apply.

• To save your settings and close the panel, click Apply and Close.

A confirmation panel appears.

4. Click OK.

Change system information settings

Perform the following steps to changed system information settings:

1. Perform one of the following to access the Services options:

• In the Home topic, select Action > System Settings, then click the System information tab.

• In the System topic, select Action > System Settings, then click the System information tab.

• In the banner, click the user panel and select Set System Information.

• In the Welcome panel, select System Settings, and then click the System information tab.

2. Set the system name, contact, location, and information or description values. The name is shown in the browser title bar or tab. The

name, location, and contact are included in event notifications. All four values are recorded in system debug logs for reference by

service personnel. Each value can include a maximum of 79 bytes, using all characters except the following: " < > \

3. Perform one of the following:

• To save your settings and continue configuring your system, click Apply.

• To save your settings and close the panel, click Apply and Close.

A confirmation panel appears.

4. Click OK.

Setting system notification settings

The Notifications tab provides options for you to set up and test several types of system notifications.

• Configuring SMTP settings.

• Sending notifications to email addresses when events occur in the system.

• Sending notifications to SNMP trap hosts.

• Enabling managed logs settings, which transfers log data to a log-collection system. For more information about the managed logs

feature, see About managed logs.

• Setting remote syslog notifications to allow the logging of events by the syslog of a specified host computer. Syslog is a protocol for

sending event messages across an IP network to a logging server. This feature supports User Datagram Protocol (UDP) but not

Transmission Control Protocol (TCP).

• Testing notifications.

NOTE: Enable at least one notification service to monitor the system.

Configure SMTP settings

Perform the following steps to configure SMTP settings:

1. Perform one of the following to access the options in the Notifications tab:

• In the Home topic, select Action > System Settings, then click Notifications.

• In the System topic, select Action > System Settings, then click Notifications.

• In the footer, click the events panel and select Set Up Notifications.

• In the Welcome panel, select System Settings, and then click the Notifications tab.

2. If the mail server is not on the local network, ensure that the gateway IP address was set in Configuring controller network ports.

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