Veritas Access Appliance Initial Configuration Guide
- Getting to know the Access Appliance
- Preparing to configure the appliance
- Configuring the appliance for the first time
- Getting started with the Veritas Access GUI
- Storage management
- Network connection management
- Configuring network address settings on the appliance nodes
- About the Veritas Remote Management Console
- Monitoring the appliance
- Resetting the appliance to factory settings
- Appliance security
- About Access appliance user account privileges
- About the Access Appliance intrusion detection system
- About Access appliance operating system security
- Recommended IPMI settings on the Access appliance
- Troubleshooting
Setting up email notifications on the appliance
The appliance can send email alerts when hardware and software components fail or encounter errors.
To configure email notifications
- Log on to the Access Appliance shell menu.
- From the Main_Menu > Settings > Alerts view, enter the following command to set the SMTP mail server:
Email SMTP Add <server> [[account]] [[password]]
Where <server> is the IP address or FQDN of your SMTP mail server.
- Enter one or both of the following commands to set the email addresses that you want the appliance to send emails to:
Email Hardware Add <hardware_admin>
Email Software Add <software_admin>
Where <hardware_admin> is the email address of the appliance hardware administrator and <software_admin> is the email address of the appliance software administrator.
Note:
You can add multiple email addresses at once by separating them with a semi-colon (;). Do not add a space before or after the semi-colon.
- Enter the following command to set the email account that you want the emails to originate from (sender email):*
Email SenderID Set <sender_email>
Where <sender_email> is the email address that you want the appliance emails to originate from.*
- Enter the following command to set the time interval between email notifications:
Email NotificationInterval <minutes>
Where <minutes> is the time interval in minutes.
- Enter the following command to verify the appliance email notification settings:*
Email Show
Note:
Steps 4-6 are optional.