Email Alert Notification
Hi Amigos,
Today I will let you know the configuration of email notification alerts
on your VNX or Clariion Storage Arrays.
Purpose:
Notification alerts are the pro-active steps to know the hardware
or software failures occurred on the Storage Array.
To set the notification alerts on your VNX storage, the procedure
is below.
Procedure:
Click on the System tab on the
menu bar.
Click on Monitoring and Alert option.
Select Notification option.
Click on Notification template tab.
Go to Engineering Mode by
pressing the Shift+Ctrl+F12 buttons on your keyboard.
Type the password as “messner” and click
on Ok.
Select the Call_Home_Template and
click on Properties.
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| Notification Template |
A new window will open and in “General” tab click on “Advanced”
option to select the Event code like Critical Error, Error, Warning, Information
alerts to trigger to your email address.
Go to E-Mail tab and specify all the parameters for the
email notification.
To trigger the email notification alerts SMTP Server IP
address is mandatory.
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| Template Properties |
The Message will look like in this pattern:
Time Stamp %T% (GMT)
Event Number %N%
Severity %SEV% Host
%H%
Storage Array %SUB%
%SP% Device %D%
Description %E%
Company Name:
Contact Name:
Contact Phone Number:
Contact Email
Address:
Secondary Contact
Name:
Secondary Contact
phone Number:
Secondary Contact
Email Address:
Additional Comments:
IP Address SP A: 10.XX.XX.XXX
SP B:10.XX.XX.XXX
Once all the parameters are specified, click on Test to test
that the email notifications alerts are triggering to your specified email
address or not.
In this way we can able to configure the email notification alerts on the VNX or Clariion Storage Arrays.