Users Guide

NOTE: CMC uses a default SNMP community string as public. To ensure higher security, it is recommended to
change the default community string and set a value which is not blank.
You can congure up to four destinations to receive traps alerts. To add more destinations, repeat steps 2–6.
NOTE: The commands in steps 2–6 overwrites any existing settings congured for the index specied (1–4). To
determine whether an index has previously congured values, type: racadm getconfig -g cfgTraps -i
<index>. If the index is congured, values appear for the cfgTrapsAlertDestIPAddr and cfgTrapsCommunityName
objects.
7. To test an event trap for an alert destination, type:
racadm testtrap -i <index>
where <index> is a value 1–4 representing the alert destination you want to test.
If you are not sure of the index number, use:
racadm getconfig -g cfgTraps -i <index>
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.
You must 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 do this 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 system tree, go to Chassis Overview, and then click Alerts → E-mail Alert Settings.
2. Specify the SMTP email server settings and the email address(es) to receive the alerts. For information about the elds, see the
CMC 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. You may skip step 3 if you have already set
a lter mask.
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. Table Event Traps Filter Masks provides lter masks for each event type. For instructions on calculating the hex
value for the lter mask you want to enable, see step 3 in Conguring SNMP Trap Alert Destinations Using RACADM.
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