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Table Of Contents
- Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Overview of Site Recovery Manager
- System Requirements
- Installing or Updating Site Recovery Manager
- Managing SRM
- Protected Site Configuration
- Recovery Site Configuration
- Failback
- Alerting and Monitoring
- Protected and Recovery Site Changes
- Preinstallation Checklist
- Failback Checklist
- Use the srm-config command to repair an SRM server connection
- Avoiding Replication of Paging Files and Other Transient Data
- Glossary
- Index
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Prepare for Alarm Notification by Email
Touseemailmessagestosendalarmnotifications,youmust:
DefinetheSMTPserverandemailmessageaddressinginformation.
Specifytheemailaddressesfortheuserswhoyouwanttoreceivetheemail
notifications.
Toprepareforemailmessagealarmnotification,thefollowingconditionsmustbein
place:
TheVIClientmustbeconnectedtotheVirtualCenterServer.
MinimumrequiredprivilegeisSettings(Globalprivileges).
To define the SMTP server and email message addressing information
1FromtheVIClient,chooseAdministration>VirtualCenterManagementServer
Configuration.
2ClickMailinthenavigationlist.
3Foremailmessagenotification,settheSMTPserverandSMTPportasfollows:
SMTPServer–ThehostnameorIPaddressoftheSMTPgatewaytousefor
sendingemailmessages.
SenderAccount–Theemailaddressofthesender,forexample,
srm_alarms@example.com.
4ClickOK.
5IntheSRMview, clicktheAlarmstab.
6 Selectanalarmtoaddamailnotificationevent.
7Right‐clickthealarmandselectEditSettings.
8 SelecttheActionstab.
9ClickAdd.
10 Changethetypeoftheactionto
Sendanotificationemail.
11 Setthevalueoftheactiontotheemailaddresstosendthenotificationto.