Set Up Email Notification

PacketWise uses the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) for email messaging. To configure email notification, you need to:

1. Configure the SMTP server.

2. Define email recipients (those who will receive the email notification of events when thresholds are crossed).

Configure the SMTP Server

To configure the SMTP server and the sender's email account, use the setup email command from the command-line interface as described below.

To configure email:

1. Access the CLI.

2. At the command-line prompt, type setup email <address> where <address> is the name or IP address of the email server.

Note: If the SMTP port is not 25, type the port number after the address — for example, setup email SNMP.mailserver.net:30.

3. When prompted for the sender name, type the complete email address, including the domain name. For example: john_doe@example.com or "John Doe" <john_doe@example.com>

Define Email Recipients

Add recipients for event email by using the event email command from the CLI, as described below.

To configure email recipients:

1. At the command-line prompt, type event email add and press Enter.

2. When prompted for the recipient name, type the email name and/or address.

To send to more than one recipient, simply leave a space between each email address. You can list up to four recipient addresses.

3. To see a list of event email recipients, type event show and press Enter. The recipient list appears at the beginning of the output (above the event list).

To remove a recipient, use the event email delete <recipient> command, where <recipient> is the name or email address of the recipient you want to delete.

To verify that the event email configuration is valid, use the email test <recipient> command from the CLI. To verify the user event recipient list is working, use the event test-email command.