Configuring email notifications

The email feature transmits operational and error-related data in the form of an event notification email.

To configure an email server, from the Event Notifications page, select Email Server. Select Edit and then click Enable email notifications. Enter required details and when you are ready, click OK.

Email notifications can be customized by setting a custom header and footer for the emails and customizing the subject by selecting and combining from the following variables: &message, &messageId, &severity, &dateAndTime, &cluster and &component.

Emails containing the quota reports and other events reported in the following functional areas are sent to the recipients: End of change

Authentication
CES network
Transparent Cloud Tiering
NSD
File system
GPFS™
GUI
Hadoop connector
iSCSI
Keystone
Network
NFS
Object
Performance monitoring
SMB
Object authentication
Node
CES

Start of change You can specify the severity level of events and whether to send a report that contains a summary of the events received. End of change

To create email recipients, select Email Recipients from the Event Notifications page, and then click Create Recipient.

Note: You can change the email notification configuration or disable the email service at any time.