Configuring the email server

To send reports, you must configure the email server.

About this task

The email server that is used to send alert notifications is also used to send reports. If you didn't configure the email server for alert notifications, you must configure the email server before you create reports.

IBM Spectrum Control ensures, when it sends alert notifications and reports by email to your email server, that it complies with the security standards that you configure on your email server. For example, if your email server requires authentication and TLS to send emails, then IBM Spectrum Control uses the authentication credentials that you provide when you set up the email server, and uses TLS to establish the connection with your email server. Because the email server that you set up is automatically trusted, you don't have any additional management tasks such as importing the server certificate into the keystores that are used by IBM Spectrum Control.
Tip: To change the configuration of the mail server, you click Settings > Notification Settings.

Procedure

  1. Type the host name, or IPv4, or IPv6 address of the email server.
  2. Type the port number that is used by the email server to send alert notifications and reports.
  3. Provide the user's credentials for authenticating with your email server.
    If your email server requires authentication to establish the connection, you must enter the user name and password.
  4. Optional: Type the email address, such as the email address of the administrator, that you want to use for receiving replies to alert notifications and reports.
    If you don't enter a value, and you entered an email address in the User Name field, then replies are sent to that address. Otherwise, replies are sent to no-reply@<Spectrum_Control_server_host_name>.
  5. Test the connection and then click Save.

Results

You can create reports and send the reports by email.