Receiving E-mail Notifications

MSU can send event notifications to a user’s email account. This requires a working SMTP email server. This involves the following two steps:

    Configuring SMTP E-mail Server Settings

    Selecting Event Notifications

Configuring SMTP E-mail Server Settings

This section describes the procedure to configure SMTP e-mail server settings in MSU.

To configure SMTP e-mail server settings

1.    Select System in the list of system devices.

2.    Roll-over the Toolset tab, and select Email Setting, as shown in Figure 1.

The Email Setting window appears, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 1  System Toolset Menu

 

Figure 2  Email Settings

 

3.    Configure the email server settings, and select Test setting, as shown in Figure 2.

MSU sends a test mail to the configured email address. If the test mail is received, the settings are working correctly.

4.    Select Submit to save settings.

MSU confirms changes with the message Setting updated successfully!

Selecting Event Notifications

This section describes the procedure for selecting event types (information, error, warning) that trigger email notifications.

Note: For information on the icons used for different event types, see Icons used in MSU.

To receive e-mail event notifications

1.    Select System in the list of system devices.

2.    Roll-over the Toolset tab, and select Account Manager, as shown in Figure 3.

The Account Manage window appears, as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 3  System Toolset Menu

 

Figure 5-59  Account Manage

 

3.    Type the E-mail address, as shown in Figure 4.

Note: The E-mail address must be valid for the SMTP server configured in Email Setting.

4.    Specify the event types that trigger email notifications by selecting options for Event notification level, as shown in Figure 4.

5.    Select Submit to save settings.

MSU confirms changes with the message Account updated successfully!