HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor v5.5 Software Troubleshooting and FAQs Guide (T1789-96344, February 2013)

Table 8 Configuring SMTP_Rpt_Compress for reports (continued)
C:\Program Files\Hewlett- Packard\xppa\
hostagent\config\xpmgmtstati onaddress.prp.
By default, this parameter is set to TRUE. Any PDF or RTF
file type that you generate for a report is attached as a
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compressed file in the email notification sent by HP XP
P9000 Performance Advisor. To receive a normal
(uncompressed) report as an email attachment, set the
SMTP_Rpt_Compress to FALSE. Then, restart the HP XP
P9000 Performance Advisor Tomcat service on your
management station. Any PDF or RTF file type that you
generate for a report is provided as a normal file
attachment in the email notification sent by HP XP P9000
Performance Advisor.
Table 9 Configuring the e-mail (SMTP) courier on the web server for reports
...%HPSS_HOME%\pa\properties\serverparameters.propertiesFile
Each time a report is produced that has at least one e-mail
recipient.
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The first two fields are used to establish a connection with
the SMTP server. You must provide the SMTP server names
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that can communicate with your web server. Changing the
"from" field is advisable for readability purposes, especially
if the SMTP server checks for a valid sender. This is not to
be used to spam people. Change the subject line and the
definable message fields as desired. These areas are
especially useful for adding phrases for your particular
locale, explaining what a message means, or receiving
the message into a program that parses the main body of
the message and performs some automated processing.
Currently, there are no levels of alarm severity for e-mail
messages.
NOTE: You can also configure the email (SMTP) courier
settings for reports from the HP XP P9000 Performance
Advisor GUI. For more information, see the HP XP P9000
Performance Advisor Software User Guide.
The following line is used to specify where the SMTP
server(s) are located.
A server is specified by its name followed by its port. There
can be an arbitrary amount of these pairs to try. They are
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used in the order they appear here. An even number of
space-delimited tokens are required in this string.
An example is: smtpserver.company.com 25
alternatesmtp.nonprofit.org 25
If you cannot ping it, the code cannot talk to it!
Add more pairs of servers and ports to achieve retries:
SMTP_Rpt_Server=smtpserver.company.com 25
alternatesmtp.nonprofit.org 25
The following entry specifies who the e-mail is said to be
coming from:
SMTP_Rpt_Mail_From=[e-mail]
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