Configuring Email Alerts; Email Alert Global Configuration - Ubiquiti EdgeSwitch ES-24-250W Administration Manual

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Configuring Email Alerts

With the email alerting feature, log messages can be sent to one or more email addresses. You must
configure information about the network Simple Mail Transport Protocol (SMTP) server for email to be
successfully sent from the switch.
The pages available from the Email Alerting folder allow you to configure information about what type of
log message are sent via email and to what address(es) the messages are emailed.

Email Alert Global Configuration

Use the Email Alert Global Configuration page to configure the common settings for log messages emailed
by the switch. To access the page, click System > Advanced Configuration > Email Alerts > Global in the
navigation menu.
Field
Admin Mode
From Address
Log Duration
Urgent Messages Severity
Non Urgent Messages Severity
Traps Severity
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Email Alert Global Configuration
Email Alert Global Configuration Fields
Description
The administrative mode of the feature:
• Enable The device can send email alerts to the configured SMTP server.
• Disable The device will not send email alerts.
Specifies the email address of the sender (the switch).
This duration in minutes specifies how often to send the noncritical messages to the SMTP Server. For
example, if set to 30, the noncritical messages are sent every 30 minutes.
Configures the urgent severity level(s) for log messages (urgent log messages are sent immediately).
Select a severity level to define that level and all higher levels as urgent. Severity levels are (from highest
to lowest severity):
Emergency
• Indicates system is unusable (highest severity)
• Alert Indicates action must be taken immediately
• Critical Indicates critical conditions
• Error Indicates error conditions
• Warning Indicates warning conditions
• Notice Indicates normal but significant conditions
• Info Indicates informational messages
• Debug Indicates debug-level messages (lowest severity)
Configures the nonurgent severity level(s) for log messages (nonurgent log messages are collected and
sent in a digest form at the time interval specified by the Log Duration field). Select a severity level to
define that level, and all levels up to but not including the lowest urgent level, as nonurgent. Messages
below the severity level you specify are not sent via email.
See the Urgent Messages Severity field description for information about the severity levels.
Configures the severity level for trap log messages. See the Urgent Messages Severity field description
for information about the severity levels.
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