Email Alert/ Mail Server/ Message Configuration

The email alert feature supports mail server configuration, message severity configuration, and up to three email addresses to send urgent and non-urgent email alerts. Use the Email Alert to send messages to the configured email addresses when particular system events occur.

Tip

Do not use your personal email address. This would unnecessarily expose your personal email login credentials. Use a separate email account instead. Also, be aware that many email accounts keep a copy of all sent messages by default. Anyone with access to this email account has access to the sent messages. Review the email settings to ensure that they conform to your privacy policy.

To configure the WAP device to send email alerts, perform the following steps:

Procedure

Step 1

Select Notification > Email Alert.

Step 2

In the Global Configuration area, configure the following parameters:

  • Administrative Mode — Check Enable to enable the email alert feature.

  • From Email Address — Enter the email address to be displayed as the sender of the email. The address is a 255-character string with only printable characters. No address is configured by default.

  • Log Duration — Enter the frequency in minutes at which scheduled messages are sent. The range is from 30 to 1440 minutes. The default is 30 minutes.

  • Scheduled Message Severity — Select the severity from the drop-down list (Emergency, Alert, Critical, Error, or Warning) that an event must have for it to be sent to the configuration email address at the frequency specified by the Log Duration. The default severity is Warning.

  • Urgent Message Severity — Select the severity from the drop-down list (Emergency, Alert, Critical, Error, Warning, Notice, Info or debug) that an event must have for it to be sent to the configured email address immediately. The default severity is Alert.

Step 3

In the Mail Server Configuration area, configure these parameters:

  • Server IPv4 Address/Name — Enter the IP address or host name of the outgoing SMTP server. The server address must be a valid IPv4 address or host name. The IPv4 address should be in a form similar to xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (192.0.2.10).

    A host name can consist of one or more labels, which are sets of up to 63 alphanumeric characters. If a host name includes multiple labels, each is separated by a period (.). The entire series of labels and periods can be up to 253 characters long.

  • Data Encryption — Choose the mode of security from the drop-down list (Open or TLSv1) for the outbound email alert. Using the secure TLSv1 protocol can prevent eavesdropping and tampering during the communication across the public network.

  • Port — Enter the SMTP port number to use for outbound emails. The range is a valid port number from 0 to 65535. The default port is 465.

  • Username — Enter the user name for the email account that will be used to send these emails. Typically (but not always) the user name is the full email address including the domain (such as Name@example.com). The specified account will be used as the email address of the sender. The user name can be from 1 to 64 alphanumeric characters.

  • Password — Enter the password for the email account that will be used to send these emails. The password can be from 1 to 64 characters.

Step 4

In the Message Configuration area, configure the email addresses and subject line:

  • To Email Address 1/2/3 — Enter up to three addresses to receive the email alerts. Each email address must be a valid address.

  • Email Subject — Enter the text to appear in the email subject line. This can be up to a 255-character alphanumeric string.

Step 5

Click Save.