ServerConductor/Blade Server Manager Description and Reference

### 6.3.1 Email (alert notification)

This subsection describes how to send alert notifications by email.

Organization of this subsection
  (1) Settings for email as the alert action
  (2) Information that is sent by email

#### (1) Settings for email as the alert action

To use email for sending alert notifications, from the Setting menu, choose Manager Service Settings to display the Manager Service Settings dialog box. In this dialog box, choose the Email Settings tab, and then from the Select the function for email settings drop-down list, select Alert action.

On this tabbed page, set the following information:

Item | Setting
--- | ---
Destination | Set the email address to which alerts are to be sent.
Sender | Set the sender's email address.
Subject | Set the subject line for the email messages (as a character string).
Mail server | Set the host name of the sender's mail server.
Test email | Select if a test email is to be sent to all email addresses displayed in the Email report destination list. Test Mail is set as the subject line and as the message of the test email, and no file is attached.

When you have set all items, choose the Add to List button. The email address you have set is added to the Email report destination list. You can set a maximum of four email addresses. To delete an email address from the Email report destination list, select the email address, and then choose the Delete button.

##### (a) Selecting alerts to be notified of by email

To select alerts to be notified of by email, choose the Alert selection button. The Alert Settings dialog box appears.

Select an alert that is to be sent by email. To select all alerts for notification, choose the Select All button. After selecting alerts, click the OK button to display the Email Settings page.

#### (2) Information that is sent by email

When email is used to send an alert notification, the following information is sent:

Item to be sent | Description
--- | ---
Destination | Email address set for the destination in Email notification items
Sender | Sender's email address set for the sender in Email notification items
Subject | Subject line of the email set in Email notification items
Occurrence date | Date and time the alert occurred
Issued server | Host name of the server where the alert occurred
Alert Level | Level of the alert that occurred
Alert ID | ID of the alert that occurred
Contents | Description of the alert that occurred
Occurrence Location | Location where the alert occurred

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