Installation Manual

5140 Quad-Ethernet Module SMTP Interface 6-1
SMTP Interface
The Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) facilitates the sending of email alerts to users when alarms occur.
By using this feature users are able to have important device status pushed to them rather than having to constantly
monitor status. SMTP operation requires that the user has the email address of the destination email as well as the
Server IP Address of the local network. Usually the IT department needs to be contacted for this feature.
A Management Information Base (MIB) file allows a SNMP client the ability to understand the structure of the
management data in a network device (in this case, the 5140 QEM).
5140 QEM Support
The 5140 QEM can send emails to up to 5 email addresses. All the emails sent include the same text and alarm data:
name, location, alarm type, and time. Emails are sent based upon alarms that are selected from a predefined list.
SMTP Configuration and Interface
To enable the SMTP functionality in the 5140 QEM go to
the Configuration → Edit Mode web page. It is enabled
when a valid address is typed into one of the email ID
textboxes, a valid server IP Address is entered, a valid From
email ID is entered, and at least one Alarm box is checked in
the Alarms Configuration window.
Configuring the SMTP needs the following information: the
email address of the destination email(s), the email address
of the sender, the Server IP Address, Username (this can be
anything, there are no restrictions), the correct Alarm triggers
selected. Choices are shown in Figure 6-2.
Note that these Alarms are also used to initiate TRAP alerts if
SNMP is enabled.
Figure 6-1. SMTP Configuration screen.
Figure 6-2. Alarms Configuration screen.