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Setting up email notifications on the Velocity physical appliance

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The Veritas Velocity Appliance can send email alerts when hardware and software components fail or encounter errors.

To configure email notifications

  1. Log on to the Velocity shell menu.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

    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.

  4. 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.*

  5. Enter the following command to set the time interval between email notifications:

    Email NotificationInterval <minutes>

    Where <minutes> is the time interval in minutes.

  6. Enter the following command to verify the appliance email notification settings:*

    Email Show

Steps 4-6 are optional.