Email Alerts

To change the preferences for alerting, select the menu:

• File, Preferences, or click on the Preferences button of the File toolbar (a red screwdriver)
• Choose the Email Alerts tab

The following values can be set:

• Enable SMTP alerting: the program will send a SMTP mail when a one or more nodes will be down. The email will contain a summary list of the nodes currently DOWN, STILL DOWN and UP AGAIN. You specify the exact content of the email with the Message Editor.
• From: This is the email address used to send the email.
• To: The email addresses the alerts will be sent to, separated by a semicolon (for example: test@test.net;test2@test2.org)
• SMTP Server: the DNS name or TCP/IP address of the system that will receive or relay the mail. Typically something like: mail.test.com or 192.168.1.1
• SMTP Server Logon: If your SMTP server requires authentication, enter the logon name that will allow access to its functionality. Otherwise, just let this field and the next one (password) empty.
  Password: If you entered a Logon for your SMTP server, this is the associated password. Otherwise blank if no authentication is needed.
• Send the email _ times: You can choose how many emails are sent. This value is set to 1 by default. If you want a continuous flow of emails, enter 0. This value is only valid when a node is down. You cannot change the number of emails sent when a node comes up again, this value is always 1. An example will help:
  If you choose 5 as the number of emails, you will receive a maximum of 5 emails, plus 1 additional email when the node comes up again (which could be hours later...)
• Display a warning on SMTP errors: if the SMTP server you specified is not available for some reason, an error dialog is shown. A SMTP error log is created automatically when there is something wrong with SMTP. The file is SmtpErr.log, located in the NetworkView executable directory. You can remove the warning dialogs by unchecking this option. You can view this file with the menu Logs, Error Log.
• Log all emails to a file: a file is created, containing the body of the alert emails. The document filename and a .log extension are used for creating this text file. You can view this file with the menu Logs, Email Log.