9.5.01 HP P4000 SAN Solution User Guide (AX696-96168, February 2012)

Setting up email notification
To set up email notification of events, you must set up the following:
• Email server
• Email recipients
Setting up the email server
When you configure a management group, you configure email notification for events by setting
up the email server to send events and then adding email recipients to receive notification based
on event severity. Change these settings later, if necessary, by using the Email window found under
the Events node in the management group tree.
1. In the navigation window, log in to the management group.
2. In the tree, select Events→Email.
3. Click Email Tasks, and select Edit Email Settings.
4. In the Server IP/Hostname field, enter the IP address or host name of your email (SMTP) server.
5. In the Server Port field, enter the email port.
The standard port is 25.
6. In the Sender Address field, enter the email address, including the domain name, to use as
the sender for notifications.
The system automatically adds the host name of the storage system in the email From field,
which appears in many email systems. This host name helps identify where the event occurred.
7. Do one of the following:
• To save your changes and close the window, click Apply.
• To save your changes, close the window, and send a test email message, click Apply
and Test.
If you do not complete the email configuration, an alarm appears until you do so. Your changes
are saved, but the test function does not work until you complete the configuration, including at
least one email recipient.
NOTE: In some configurations designed to prevent spam, mail servers may start dropping multiple
emails if too many are being sent from a single source. During some SAN/iQ operations, multiple
alarms may be generated while the operation progresses. If you have a mail server configured to
filter spam, you may not receive some emails.
TIP: Add the sender email address to your safe senders list to ensure the system emails are
received.
Setting up email recipients
Set up email notification for events for each management group. After setting up the email server,
add email recipients to receive notification based on event severity.
NOTE: To temporarily disable email notification to a recipient, possibly because you are doing
something that would cause many event emails, you can deselect all of the severities. This generates
an alarm that persists until you set at least one severity again for the recipient.
To set up email recipients:
1. In the navigation window, log in to the management group.
2. In the tree, select Events→Email.
3. Click Email Tasks, and select Edit Email Settings.
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