Administrator Guide

Congure Email Notications
You can dene the list of email recipients to whom notications will be sent for various alert levels. You can also change the email
notication conguration at any time.
1. Click Group → Group Conguration.
2. Click the Notications tab to open the Email Event Notications panel.
3. If it is not already selected, select the Send email to addresses checkbox.
4. In the Email recipients section, click Add to open the dialog box. Type an email address and then click OK.
You can specify up to ve email addresses.
5. To choose the types of events that will generate email notications, select or clear the checkboxes in the Event priorities
section.
6. In the SMTP servers section:
a. Click Add to open the Add SMTP server dialog box.
You can congure up to three servers, and you must have at least one server congured to send email.
b. In the IP address eld, enter the IP address for the SMTP server.
The format is A.B.C.D, where A, B, C, and D are 1- to 3-digit numbers.
c. In the Port eld, type the port number to use to communicate with the specied server, or click the Use default port
button.
The default port, 25, is used if no port is dened.
d. Repeat steps a through c to add more servers.
e. To change the order of the listed servers, select an IP address and click the Up or Down link to reposition the address in
the list.
Servers are listed in the order that they should be used for email.
7. Click OK and then type an email address in the Sender email address eld.
Test the Email Notication Conguration
1. In the Event Logs panel, select Enable automatic delivery of INFO messages.
2. Log out of the group and then log back in to the group.
If an email recipient does not receive notication of the logout and login events, verify and correct the conguration.
About Email Home
NOTE: Support for Email Home will be discontinued in a future release. Email home will be replaced by SupportAssist,
which provides functionality similar to Email Home. Dell recommends installing SAN Headquarters version 3.2 (or later)
and enabling SupportAssist to monitor your PS Series groups and report and upload critical events to Dell Technical
Support. You do not have to wait until the next release to switch from Email Home to SupportAssist.
In the current release, if a hardware component fails or if you update rmware, the group can automatically notify customer support
through email. Dell recommends that you enable Email Home to expedite Dell Technical Support becoming engaged in solving any
problems.
Email Home is available to all PS Series customers, but response time and assistance is based on the terms of your support contract.
To support Email Home, the group must have access to an SMTP server or email relay.
You need the following information:
• An email address to receive Email Home notication messages.
• An IP address and optional port for the SMTP server in the format ip_address:port. The default port is 25.
You can enter up to three IP addresses. The group uses one SMTP server or email relay at any time. The rst server that you
specify is the default server. The group uses the other servers in the order specied, if the default server is not available.
58
Post-Setup Tasks