Users Guide

Conguring Email Alert Settings
When CMC detects a chassis event, such as an environmental warning or a component failure, it can be congured to send an email alert
to one or more email addresses.
Congure the SMTP email server to accept relayed emails from the CMC IP address, a feature which is normally turned o in most mail
servers due to security concerns. For instructions to congure in a secure manner, see the documentation that was provided with the
SMTP server.
NOTE: If your mail server is Microsoft Exchange Server 2007, make sure that iDRAC domain name is congured for the mail
server to receive the email alerts from iDRAC.
NOTE: Email alerts support both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. The DRAC DNS Domain Name must be specied when using IPv6.
If your network has an SMTP server that releases and renews IP address leases periodically, and the addresses are dierent, then there is a
duration when this property setting does not work due to change in the specied SMTP server IP address. In such cases, use the DNS
name.
Conguring Email Alert Settings Using CMC Web Interface
To congure the email alert settings using Web interface:
1 In the left pane, click Chassis Overview > Alerts > E-mail Alert Settings.
2 Specify the SMTP email server settings and the email addresses to receive the alerts. For information about the eld descriptions, see
the
Online Help.
3 Click Apply to save the settings.
4 Click Send under Test E-mail to send a test email to the specied email alert destination.
Conguring EMail Alert Settings Using RACADM
To send a test email to an email alert destination using RACADM:
1 Open a serial/Telnet/SSH text console to CMC and log in.
2 Enable alert generation:
racadm config -g cfgAlerting -o cfgAlertingEnable 1
NOTE
: Only one lter mask may be set by both SNMP and email alerting. If you have already set a lter mask, do not
perform the task in step 3.
3 Specify the events for which alerts must be generated:
racadm config -g cfgAlerting -o cfgAlertingFilterMask <mask value>
where <mask value> is a hexadecimal value between 0x0 and 0x and must be expressed with the leading 0x characters. The
Event Traps Filter Masks table provides lter masks for each event type. For instructions about calculating the hex value for the lter
mask you want to enable, see step 3 in the
Conguring SNMP Trap Alert Destinations Using RACADM.
4 Enable email alert generation:
racadm config -g cfgEmailAlert -o cfgEmailAlertEnable 1 -i <index>
where <index> is a value between 1–4. CMC uses the index number to distinguish up to four destination email addresses that can be
congured.
5 Specify a destination email address to receive the email alerts:
racadm config -g cfgEmailAlert -o cfgEmailAlertAddress <email address> -i <index>
where <email address> is a valid email address, and <index> is the index value you specied in step 4.
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