You can configure automatic event notification settings for SnapManager. You can enable and configure e-mail notification, advanced event notification settings, advanced e-mail notification settings, storage system syslog settings, and AutoSupport notification settings.
Before you begin
You must have the following ready before you configure automatic event notification settings:
- IP address of the SMTP e-mail server or gateway
- E-mail address of each recipient to whom the notification is to be sent.
- E-mail address of the sender of the notification that you want to use
By default, SMEAutoSender is the name of the notification sender. To specify a sender other than the default, use one of the following formats:
- SenderAlias<SenderName@SenderDomain>
- SenderAlias
- SenderName@SenderDomain
- The text to be appended to the standard subject line, which is included in all notification messages:
Backup status at mm_dd_yyyy-hh.mm.ss from MachineName
By default, the string SnapManager for Exchange is appended.
If you select to send the operational results in summary format rather than in verbose format, you can also select the Include SnapManager Operation Report as an Attachment option.
About this task
By default, the automatic e-mail notification feature is disabled.
SnapManager relies on and requires an external e-mail host at your site to send e-mail. The e-mail host is a host that runs a mail server that listens on the SMTP port (25).
You can configure the SMTP mail notification settings by selecting either or both of the following two options:
- Only send notification when operation fails
- Specifies that you want e-mail notification sent only when a backup process or a verification process fails (cleared by default).
- Include SnapManager operation report as attachment
- Specifies that you want the status report to be attached to the e-mail notification (cleared by default).
Steps
- In the Actions pane (or the Configure Automatic Event Notification screen of the Configuration wizard), select Notification Settings.
The Auto Notification Settings dialog box opens.
- To enable e-mail notification, select the Send Email Notification option.
- In the relevant text boxes, type the following information.
- In the SMTP Server text box, type the host name or the IP address of the SMTP e-mail server or gateway to be used.
- In the From text box, type the e-mail address of the sender of the notification.
- In the To text box, type the e-mail address of each recipient.
To send to more than one recipient, use a semicolon (;) to separate the addresses.
- In the Subject text box, type the text to be appended to the standard subject line.
- Click Advanced.
The Advanced Event Notification Settings dialog box opens.
- In the E-mail Message Content pane, select the types of body messages to include in the e-mail.
- If you choose the summary format rather than the verbose format, you can also select the Include SnapManager Operation Report as an Attachment option.
- Click Apply to commit your settings.
- To configure the SMTP mail notification settings, select either or both of the following two options:
- Only send notification when operation fails check box
- Include SnapManager operation report as attachment check box
- Click OK to apply your settings and close the Advanced E-mail Notifications Settings dialog box.
- Click Send a Test Email.
SnapManager sends a test e-mail notification that uses the settings you specified and displays what that e-mail message looks like.
- If you want to post SnapManager events to the storage system syslog, select Log SnapManager Events to Storage System Syslog.
- If you want to enable automatic notification of syslog entries to technical support, and if SnapManager is configured to log events to the storage system syslog, select Send AutoSupport Notification.
- If you want to limit SnapManager event logging to failure events, select On failure only.
- Click OK (or Next, if you are using the Configuration wizard).
