User guide

Metered Rack PDU User Guide71
Active, Automatic, Direct Notification
E-mail notification
Overview of setup. Use the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to send e-mail to up to four
recipients when an event occurs.
To use the e-mail feature, you must define the following settings:
• The IP addresses of the primary and, optionally, the secondary Domain Name System (DNS)
servers. (See “DNS” on page 62.)
• The IP address or DNS name for SMTP Server and From Address. (See “SMTP” on page 71.)
• The e-mail addresses for a maximum of four recipients. (See “E-mail recipients” on page 71.)
Note: You can use the To Address setting of the recipients option to send e-mail to a text-based
mobile device.
SMTP.
Path: Administration > Notification > E-mail > server
E
-mail recipients .
Path: Administration > Notification > E-mail > recipients
Identify up to four e-mail recipients.
Setting Description
Local
SMTP
Server
The IPv4/IPv6 address or DNS name of the local SMTP server.
Note:This definition is required only when SMTP Server is set to Local. See “E-mail recipi-
ents” on page 71.
From
Address
The contents of the From field in e-mail messages sent by the Rack PDU:
• In the format user@ [IP_address] (if an IP address is specified as Local SMTP Server)
• In the format user@domain (if DNS is configured and the DNS name is specified as Local
SMTP Server
) in the e-mail messages.
Note:The local SMTP server may require that you use a valid user account on the server for this
setting. See the server’s documentation.
Setting Description
To Address The user and domain names of the recipient. To use e-mail for paging, use the e-mail address
for the recipient’s pager gateway account (for example, [e-mail]). The
pager gateway will generate the page.
To bypass the DNS lookup of the mail server’s IP address, use the IP address in brackets
instead of the e-mail domain name, e.g., use jsmith@[xxx.xxx.x.xxx] instead of
[e-mail]. This is useful when DNS lookups are not working correctly.
Note:The recipient’s pager must be able to use text-based messaging.
E-mail
Generation
Enables (by default) or disables sending e-mail to the recipient.