Notifications panel screen details

Enabled or Disabled turns on or off the email notification feature, respectively. See also Enable or disable an email recipient and filter.

The Filters list shows the following settings for each entry:

Enter the email address for the appliance. This email address appears as the From or Sender line of the email message sent.

	NOTES: If passwords are required for email accounts, Hewlett Packard Enterprise recommends creating a dedicated email account solely for email notification of alerts. The appliance detects the SMTP server from the domain specified in this email address. If authentication is not enabled in the SMTP server, you can specify a dummy user name. However, the specified domain must be valid. You can choose to specify the SMTP server and port information separately in the SMTP options portion of this screen. If you do, the appliance uses that information and does not try to detect the SMTP server from the email address. The SMTP server host name and IP address details are discovered from the mx records of the DNS server. The port number is assumed to be the standard SMTP port, 25. You can confirm if the mx records are configured on DNS by running the command set q=mx followed by domain name on the nslookup utility. However, some DNS servers might use a round robin schedule so the retrieved list could change every time the query is run. If the mx records in DNS server are missing or if the DNS is not reachable, configure SMTP manually. If the SMTP server is using a nonstandard port, configure it manually.

The password for the sending email address.

You need to supply a password if your SMTP server requires authentication. The appliance verifies the credentials using the SMTP LOGIN authentication mechanism.

	IMPORTANT: Passwords are sent in clear text because this feature does not support TLS/SSL for SMTP sessions.

The following options appear when the SMTP options check box is selected:

If the SMTP options check box is selected, the appliance uses the information in this portion for the SMTP server.

If the SMTP options check box is not selected, the appliance detects the SMTP server from the email address domain name by default.

Option switch that lets you enable or disable the email notification feature entirely.

Optionally, you can enable or disable an individual recipient/filter entry instead.

If filters are already configured, they are listed by name and the screen indicates if they are individually enabled or disabled.

Opens the Add Alert Email Filter screen so that you can add an email filter.

Enables you to name the filter.

Enables or disables email notification for this entry.

Reveals the available alert filter types that you either select or the alert filters that you enter, based on your choice.

Alert filters are displayed in the text field in a format according to the Predefined, Guided, or Advanced choice. Choosing another choice (for example, from predefined to guided) changes the format of the alert filter in the text field.

You can select or enter one or more alert filters in the text field.

The alert filter types are:

Presents a menu of the scope resources for you to select. Selecting a scope means that only alerts associated with the resources assigned to the scope will be sent.

You can enter multiple scope resources.

A selected scope is designed to limit the alerts sent to those from resources defined in the scope. However, alerts from resources that do not support the scope feature are also included.

	IMPORTANT: Be aware that alerts associated with resource categories that do not support the scope feature are not filtered out. Do not rely on this behavior to capture those alerts. Instead, when filtering by resource scope, always use the associated resource category filter to restrict the filter to resource categories that do support scopes. To send alert notifications for categories that do not support scope, create a separate alert email filter that filters by resource categories but not by scope.

The Match any and Match all radio buttons let you determine if the email filter applies to any of the selected scopes or all the selected scopes, respectively.

On selection, a scope is removed from the menu and displayed as a button in the field. Each scope button displays an , with which you can deselect the scope.