Veritas Access Administrator's Guide

To display attributes of an email group

• To display attributes of an email group, enter the following:

  Report> email show [group]

  where group is optional, and it specifies the group for which to display the attributes. If the specified group does not exist, an error message is displayed. For example:

To add a new email group

• To add a new email group, enter the following:

  Report> email add group [group]

  where group specifies the name of the new email group and can only contain the following characters:

  • Alpha characters

  • Numbers

  • Hyphens

  • Underscores

  If the entered group already exists, then no error message is displayed.

  Multiple email groups can be defined, each with their own email addresses, event severity, and filter.

To add an email address to an existing group

• To add an email address to an existing group, enter the following:

  Report> email add email-address group email-address

  group	Specifies the group to which the email address is added. The email group must already exist.
  email-address	Specifies the email address to be added to the group.

To add an email add ignore-string functionality to an existing group

• If you want to block specific email notifications, then you can add the notification string to an email group. To add the notification string, enter the following:

  Report> email add ignore-string group
  					notification-to-ignore

  group	Specifies the group to which the email address is added. The email group must already exist.
  notification-to-ignore	Specifies the notification that you want to ignore.

  • Enter the notification-to-ignore in double quotes.

  • The string can contain alphanumeric, underscore, hyphen and round brackets.

  You can also add email notifications as ignore-strings which are mentioned in an escalation defect.

  You can use the report> email show group command to see all the ignore notification strings which are set to a specific group.

To delete an existing ignore notification string

• To delete an existing ignore notification string, enter the following:

  Report> email del ignore-string group
  					string-to-delete

  group	Specifies the group to which the email address is added. The email group must already exist.
  string-to-delete	Specifies the notification that you want to delete.

  • Enter the string-to-delete in double quotes.

  Note:

  The report email del ignore string command deletes all the configured ignore-strings that match the input string.

  You can use the report> email show group command to see all the ignore notification strings which are set to a specific group.

To add a severity level to an existing email group

• To add a severity level to an existing email group, enter the following:

  Report> email add severity group severity

  group	Specifies the email group for which to add the severity. The email group must already exist.
  severity	Indicates the severity level to add to the email group. See About severity levels and filters. Only one severity level is allowed at one time. You can have two different groups with the same severity levels and filters. Each group can have its own severity definition. You can define the lowest level of the severity that triggers all other severities higher than it.

To add a filter to an existing group

• To add a filter to an existing group, enter the following:

  Report> email add filter group filter

  group	Specifies the email group for which to apply the filter. The email group must already exist.
  filter	Specifies the filter for which to apply to the group. See About severity levels and filters. The default filter is all. A group can have more than one filter, but there may not be any duplicate filters for the group.

To delete an email address from an existing group

• To delete an email address from an existing group, enter the following:

  Report> email del email-address group email-address

  group	Specifies the group from which to delete the email address.
  email-address	Specifies the email address from which to delete from the group.

To delete a filter from an existing group

• To delete a filter from an existing group, enter the following:

  Report> email del filter group filter

  group	Specifies the group to remove the filter from.
  filter	Specifies the filter to be removed from the group. See About severity levels and filters. The default filter is all.

To delete an existing email group

• To delete an existing email group, enter the following:

  Report> email del group group

  where group specifies the name of the email group to be deleted.

To delete a severity from a specified group

• To delete a severity from a specified group, enter the following:

  Report> email del severity group severity

  group	Specifies the name of the email group from which the severity is to be deleted.
  severity	Specifies the severity to delete from the specified group. See About severity levels and filters.

To display mail server settings

• To display mail server settings, enter the following:

  Report> email get

To add a mail server and user account

• To add a mail server and user account from which email notifications are sent out, enter the following:

  Report> email set [email-server] [email-user]

  email-server	Specifies the external mail server from which email notifications are sent out.
  email-user	Specifies the user account from which email notifications are sent out. If email-user is specified, then the password for that user on the SMTP server is required.

To delete the mail server from sending email messages

• To delete the mail server from sending email messages, enter the following command without any options:

  Report> email set