Deployment Guide

8. Sign out and use the new IP address to access PowerVault Manager.
Setting up system notifications
Dell EMC recommends enabling at least one notification service to monitor the system.
Enable email notifications
Perform the following steps to enable email notifications:
1. In the Welcome panel, select System Settings, and then click the Notifications tab.
2. Select the Email tab and ensure that the SMTP Server and SMTP Domain options are set.
3. Set the email notification:
● To enable email notifications, select the Enable Email Notifications check box.
● To disable email notifications, clear the Enable Email Notifications check box.
4. If email notification is enabled, select the minimum severity for which the system should send email notifications: Critical
(only); Error (and Critical); Warning (and Error and Critical); Resolved (and Error, Critical, and Warning); Informational
(all).
5. If email notification is enabled, in one or more of the Email Address fields enter an email address to which the system should
send notifications. Each email address must use the format user-name@domain-name. Each email address can have a
maximum of 320 bytes. For example: [e-mail] or [e-mail].
6. Perform one of the following:
● To save your settings and continue configuring your system, click Apply.
● To save your settings and close the panel, click Apply and Close.
A confirmation panel is displayed.
7. Click OK to save your changes. Otherwise, click Cancel.
Test notification settings
Perform the following steps to test notifications:
1. Configure your system to receive trap and email notifications.
2. Click Send Test Event. A test notification is sent to each configured trap host and email address.
3. Verify that the test notification reached each configured email address.
NOTE: If there was an error in sending a test notification, event 611 is displayed in the confirmation.
Setting up SupportAssist and CloudIQ
SupportAssist provides an enhanced support experience for ME4 Series storage systems by sending configuration and
diagnostic information to technical support at regular intervals. CloudIQ provides storage monitoring and proactive service,
giving you information that is tailored to your needs, access to near real-time analytics, and the ability to monitor storage
systems from anywhere at any time.
Perform the following steps to set up SupportAssist and enable CloudIQ:
1. In the Welcome panel, select System Settings, and then click the SupportAssist tab.
2. Select the SupportAssist checkbox to enable SupportAssist for the storage system.
The SupportAssist agreement is displayed.
3. Read through the agreement, then acknowledge it by clicking Accept.
The system attempts to establish connectivity with the remote support server. Once connectivity is established, the system
collects an initial full debug log dump and sends it to the SupportAssist server.
NOTE:
If the system cannot contact the remote support server, an error message is displayed that contains details
about the connection failure and provides recommended actions.
4. In the Contact Information tab, type the primary contact information and select the preferred contact settings.
To receive email messages when a storage system issue occurs, select the Yes, I would like to receive emails from
SupportAssist when issues arise, including hardware failure notifications checkbox.
Perform system and storage setup
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