APC AP9312TH User Manual

Environmental Monitoring Unit: User’s Guide

Configuring and Using Email Notification

Configuring SMTP and DNS Settings

Requirements for
using SMTP

To use the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) to send email when an
event occurs, you must define the following settings:

•

The IP address of the Domain Name Service (DNS) server.

•

The DNS name of the

SMTP

server and the

From Address

settings for

SMTP.

•

The email addresses for a maximum of four recipients.

Note:

To page an email recipient who uses a text-based pager
gateway, see the description of the

To Address

setting

Settings on page 21

DNS server

To enable the Environmental Monitoring Unit to send email messages,
you must use the

TCP/IP & DNS

option (Web interface) or

DNS

option

(Control Console) in the

Network

menu to identify the Domain Name

Service (DNS) server by its IP address.

If the unit does not receive a response from the DNS server within five
seconds, email cannot be sent. Therefore, use a DNS server on the
same segment as the unit or on a nearby segment (but not across a
WAN).

After you define the DNS server’s IP address, verify that DNS is working
correctly by entering the DNS name of a computer on your network to
obtain the IP address for that DNS name.

SMTP settings

The

Email

option in the

Network

menu accesses the following SMTP

settings:

Setting

Description

SMTP Server

The DNS name of the SMTP server.

From Address

The contents of the

From

field in the email messages sent by

the Environmental Monitoring Unit.

Note:

See the documentation for your SMTP server to
determine whether you must you use a valid user
account on the server for this setting.