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Figure 54: Setting up E-mail for EPICenter alarm actions
2 Type the information required to configure the mail server in the fields provided, then click OK.
SMTP Host
Sent By
My server requires
authentication
User Name
Password
NOTE
If you have e-mail configured as an alarm action and the mail server is not reachable and times out when an alarm
occurs, the Alarm System will stall waiting for the action to complete. The Alarm System may also stall if a program
configured as alarm action never completes.
Configuring the Trap Forwarding Settings
You can change the settings for trap forwarding as follows:
1 Click the lower Settings... button (next to the Forward Trap to field) on the Action page.
This displays the Trap Forwarding Settings window, as shown in
shows the global trap receiver settings configured in the Administration applet, as part of the Server
Properties configuration for SNMP (see
settings).
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The outgoing mail server name (or IP address).
The e-mail address that should be used as the sender of the e-mail.
Check this if your mail server authenticates the user before sending out e-mail and
enter the user name and password of an account that the SMTP server will accept.
Usually this is the account you use to log into your network.
If you don't know whether your server requires authentication, you can go ahead
and enter the authentication information—it is ignored if it is not actually needed.
The user name for mail server authentication
The password for mail server authentication
"SNMP Properties" on page 366
The Alarm Definition Window
Figure 55. The window initially
for how to set these global
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