Administrator Guide

Test email notifications settings
Perform the following steps to test email notifications settings:
1. Configure your system to send email notifications.
2. Click Test Email. A test notification is sent to the notification email addresses.
3. Verify that the test notification reached the intended recipient.
4. Click OK.
If there was an error in sending a test notification, event 611 is displayed in the confirmation.
Send notifications to SNMP trap hosts
Perform the following steps to send notifications to SNMP trap hosts:
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. Select the SNMP tab. If a message near the top of the panel informs you that the SNMP service is disabled, enable the service.
3. Select the minimum Notification Level severity for which the system should send email notifications: Critical (only); Error (and
Critical); Warning (and Error and Critical); Informational/Resolved (all); or none.
4. In the Read community field, enter the SNMP read password for your network. This password is included in traps that are sent. This
string must differ from the write-community string. The value is case-sensitive and can have a maximum of 31 bytes. It can include any
character except for the following: " < >
The default is public.
5. In the Write community field, enter the SNMP write password for your network. This string must differ from the read-community
string. The value is case-sensitive and can have a maximum of 31 bytes. It can include any character except for the following: " < >
The default is private.
6. In the Trap Host Address fields, enter the network addresses of hosts that are configured to receive SNMP traps. The values can be
IPv4 addresses, IPv6 addresses, or FQDNs.
7. 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.
8. Click OK.
Test SNMP notification settings
Perform the following steps to test SNMP notification settings:
1. Configure three SNMP trap hosts to receive notifications of system events.
2. Click Test SNMP. A test notification is sent to each configured trap host.
3. Verify that the test notification reached the intended location.
4. Click OK.
If there was an error in sending a test notification, event 611 is displayed in the confirmation.
Configure managed logs settings
Perform the following steps to configure managed logs 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. Select the Email tab and ensure that the SMTP Server and SMTP Domain options are set. See Configure SMTP settings on page 45.
3. Select the Managed Logs tab.
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