Reference Guide

testemail
Description
Sends a test email from iDRAC to a specied destination. Prior to running the test email command, make sure
that the SMTP server is congured.
The specied index in the idrac.EmailAlert group must be enabled and congured properly. For more information,
see the see the Integrated Dell Remote Access Controller (iDRAC8) and iDRAC7 RACADM Command Line
Interface Reference Guide available at dell.com/support/manuals.
Synopsis
racadm testemail -i <index>
Input -i <index> — Species the index of the email alert to test.
Output
Success: Test e-mail sent successfully
Failure: Unable to send test e-mail
Example
Commands for the idrac.EmailAlert group:
• Enable the alert.
racadm set idrac.EmailAlert.1.Enable 1
• Set the destination email address.
racadm set idrac.EmailAlert.1.Address [e-mail]
• Set the custom message that is sent to the destination email address.
racadm set idrac.emailalert.1.CustomMsg "This is a test!"
• Make sure that the SMTP IP address is congured properly.
racadm set idrac.remotehosts.SMTPServerIPAddress 192.168.0
• View the current email alert settings.
racadm get idrac.EmailAlert.<index>
where <index> is a number from 1 to 8.
testtrap
Description
Tests the RAC’s SNMP trap alerting feature by sending a test trap from iDRAC to a specied destination trap
listener on the network.
To run this subcommand, you must have the Test Alert permission.
NOTE:
• Before you run the testtrap subcommand, make sure that the specied index in the RACADM
iDRAC.SNMP.Alert group is congured properly.
• The indices of testtrap subcommand is co-related to the indices of iDRAC.SNMP.Alert group.
Synopsis
racadm testtrap -i <index>
Input -i <index> — Species the index of the trap conguration that must be used for the test. Valid values are
from 1 to 4.
Example
• Enable the alert.
racadm set idrac.emailalert.1.CustomMsg 1
racadm set iDRAC.SNMP.Alert.1.Enable 1
• Set the destination email IP address.
racadm set iDRAC.SNMP.Alert.1.DestIpAddr
192.168.0
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