Advantech EKI-7657C User Manual

 

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•  Sender: Type in an alias of the switch in complete email address format, e.g. 

switch01@123.com

, to 

identify where the event log comes from. 

•  Authentication:  Tick the checkbox to enable this function, configuring the email account and 

password for authentication (when Email Alert enabled, this function will then be available). 

•  Mail Account: Set up the email account, e.g. 

Tomadmin

, to receive the alert. It must be an existing 

email account on the mail server, which you had set up in SMTP Server IP Address column. 

•  Password: Type in the password to the email account. 

•  Confirm Password: Reconfirm the password. 

•  Rcpt e-mail Address 1 ~ 6: You can also assign up to 6 e-mail accounts to receive the alert. 
• Click Apply . 

 

 

 
 
 

 

When the Syslog/SMTP checkbox is ticked, the event log will be sent to system log server/SMTP server. 
Also, per port log (link up, link down, and both) events can be sent to the system log server/SMTP server 
with the respective checkbox ticked. After configuring, click ‘Apply’ to have the setting taken effect. 
 

•  System event selection: There are 4 event types—Device cold start, Device warm start, 

Authentication Failure, and X-ring topology change. Before you can tick the checkbox of each event 
type, the Syslog Client Mode column on the Syslog Configuration tab/E-mail Alert column on the SMTP 
Configuration tab must be enabled first. 

 

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  Device cold start: When the device executes cold start action, the system will issue a log 

event. 

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  Device warm start: When the device executes warm start, the system will issue a log event. 

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  Authentication Failure: When the SNMP authentication fails, the system will issue a log event. 

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  X-ring topology change: When the X-ring topology has changed, the system will issue a log 

event.