Configuring System Administrator Settings : Configuring email settings
  
Configuring email settings
You can set email notification parameters for events and failures in the Administration > System Settings: Email page.
By default, email addresses are not specified for event and failure notification.
To set event and failure email notification
1. Choose Administration > System Settings: Email to display the Email page.
Figure 12‑3. Email page
2. Under Email Notification, complete the configuration as described in this table.
Control
Description
SMTP Server
Specify the SMTP server. You must have external DNS and external access for SMTP traffic for this feature to function.
Make sure you provide a valid SMTP server to ensure that the users you specify receive email notifications for events and failures.
SMTP Port
Specify the port number for the SMTP server. Typically you don’t need to change the default port 25.
Report Events via Email
Select this option to report alarm events through email. Specify a list of email addresses to receive the notification messages. Separate addresses by spaces, semicolons, commas, or vertical bars.
These alarms are events:
Admission control
CPU utilization (rising threshold, reset threshold)
Temperature (rising threshold, reset threshold)
Data store wrap frequency
Domain authentication alert
Network interface duplex errors
Network interface link errors
Fan error
Flash error
Hardware error
IPMI
Licensing
Memory error
Neighbor incompatibility
Network bypass
NFS V2/V4 alarm
Non-SSL servers detected on upgrade
Optimization service (general service status, optimization service)
Extended memory paging activity
Secure vault
System disk full
Software version mismatch
Storage profile switch failed
TCP Stop Trigger scan has started
Asymmetric routes
Expiring SSL certificates
SSL peering certificate SCEP automatic re-enrollment
Connection forwarding (ACK timeout, failure, lost EOS, lost ERR, keepalive timeout, latency exceeded, read info timeout)
Prepopulation or Proxy File Service
Report Failures via Email
Select this option to report alarm failures through email. Specify a list of email addresses to receive the notification messages. Separate addresses by spaces, semicolons, commas, or vertical bars.
These alarms are failures:
Data store corruption
System details report
Domain join error
RAID
Optimization service - unexpected halt
Critical temperature
Disk error
SSD wear warning
Override Default Sender’s Address
Select this option to configure the SMTP protocol for outgoing server messages for errors or events. Specify a list of email addresses to receive the notification messages. Separate addresses by commas.
You can also configure the outgoing email address sent to the client recipients. The default outgoing address is do-not-reply@hostname.domain. If you don’t specify a domain the default outgoing email is do-not-reply@hostname.
You can configure the host and domain settings in the Networking > Networking: Host Settings page.
Report Failures to Technical Support
Select this option to report serious failures such as system crashes to Riverbed Support.
We recommend that you activate this feature so that problems are promptly corrected.
This option doesn’t automatically report a disk drive failure. In the event of a disk drive failure, please contact Riverbed Support at support@riverbed.com.
 
3. Click Apply to apply your changes to the running configuration.
4. Click Save to save your settings permanently.
Related topic
Configuring alarm settings