Configuring Email settings
Use this dialog to configure the default global settings for Email actions.
To configure Email settings:
- From the WhatsUp Gold web interface, go to . The Configure Email Settings dialog opens.
- Enter or select the appropriate information:
- . Enter the address that the Email action message should be sent.
- . Enter the address to be listed as "From" in the email sent by the Email action.
- . Enter the address of the server on which SMTP is running (email server).
- . Enter the number of the port on which the SMTP service is listening. The standard SMTP port is 25.
- . Enter the amount of time (in seconds) that WhatsUp Gold should wait for a response from the SMTP server for each command WhatsUp Gold issues. If the time limit is exceeded, the email fails. The default timeout is 30 seconds.
- . Select this option if your SMTP server requires user authentication.
- . Enter the username to be used with SMTP authentication.
- . Entre the password of the username to be used with SMTP authentication.
- . If your SMTP server supports encrypting data over a TLS connection (formerly known as SSL), select this option to encrypt SMTP traffic.
- Click to save changes.