RAID Alerts & Notifications

Entering or Editing the Sender Email Address and SMTP Server

MegaRAID Storage Manager (MSM) can be used to send email alerts.

To setup MSM email alerts, in MSM go to Tools-->Configure Alerts:

You can use the Configure Alerts window to enter or edit the sender email address and the SMTP server.

On the Configure Alerts window, click the Mail Server tab.

The Mail Server options appear, as shown in the following figure.

ConfigureAlerts

Enter a sender’s email address in the Sender email address field, or edit the existing sender email address.

Enter your SMTP server name/IP Address in the SMTP Server field, or edit the existing details.

Clear the Use Default check box to enter the desired port number in the Port field.

Click OK

The Mail Server tab looks like this:

Adding Email Address of Recipients of Alert Notifications

The Email tab in the Configure Alerts window shows the email addresses of the recipients of the alert notifications. The MegaRAID Storage Manager software sends alert notifications to those email addresses. Use the Configure Alerts window to add or remove email addresses of recipients and to send test messages to recipients that you add.

To add email addresses of recipients of the alert notifications, perform the following steps:

1. Click the Email tab in the Configure Alerts window.

Enter the email address you want to add in the New recipient email address field.

Click Add.

The new email address appears in the Recipient email addresses field.

Testing Email Addresses of Recipients of Alert Notifications

Use the Email tab in the Configure Alerts window to send test messages to the email addresses that you added for

the recipients of alert notifications.

Click the Email tab on the Configure Alerts window.

The Email section of the window appears

Click an email address in the Recipient email addresses field.

Click Test.

Confirm whether the test message was sent to the email address.

A pop-up message indicates if the test message sent to the email address was successful. If the MegaRAID Storage Manager software cannot send an email message to the email address, an error message appears.