Configuring e-mail notification

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You can configure e-mail notification for Advanced Accounting to send notifications to notify you when a data file is 90% full. Another notification can be sent when the Advanced Accounting subsystem has switched to a new data file.

In the following scenario, you will set up e-mail notification to the address anywhere@anywhere.com. This scenario describes how to configure e-mail notification using either in SMIT or the command line.

Things to Consider
Note: The information in this how-to scenario was tested using specific versions of AIX. The results you obtain might vary significantly depending on your version and level of AIX.
  1. Change to root user.
  2. On a command line, type smit admin_notify.
  3. With the cursor on the Admin Notification Status field, press the Tab key to change the e-mail notification status from Off to On.
  4. In the Email-ID for Notification field, type anywhere@anywhere.com.
  5. Press Enter to save your settings and turn on e-mail notification.
Example
A valid e-mail address must first be specified using the SMIT interface, and then you can turn notification on and off on a command line. If e-mail notification is activated on a command line, the notifications will be sent to the most recently used e-mail address. To configure e-mail notification from the command line, type: 
acctctl email anywhere@anywhere.com
acctctl email on