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How to set up email alerts. Reference: Dell Knowledge Article number 14872. This video was created to demonstrate how to set up email alerts using the RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines CLI. When to do this.
When the user wants to set up email alerts for RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines. Before you begin. SSH to RecoverPoint Appliance using admin credentials.
Log in to site controller PA using SSH client with user admin. Once logged in, select option six, System Management CLI. Run the command 'set smtp server.'
Then enter the IP address or DNS name of the SMTP server through which to send email notifications, and press enter. Run the command config email.
Enter the email address that you wish to be displayed in the 'From' field of your Email Alert emails and press Enter. You will be asked if you want to enable preemptive support.
Default value is 'No.' Run the command 'enable email' to enable email service. The next step is to set up an event filter to determine which events should be sent with the command 'create event filter.' Enter event filter name.
Choose the topic 'default as all topics,' then choose the level of which events should be sent between info, warning, and error. Then, choose scope to set the depth of details in the events.
Default is 'Normal.' Enter a list of event IDs to exclude. Leave blank if there aren't any. Then select which group should send events. Default is 'All.' Use
the command 'add_email_users' to set the email addresses that are to receive event notifications. Choose the alert's frequency, either 'Immediate' or 'Daily.'
Choose the event filter created previously to define the set of events that are to be sent to this email group. You have now successfully set up email alerts.
Reference the following for more information. Knowledge base article 14872 and Dell EMC RecoverPoint for Virtual Machines CLI Reference Guide.
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