Email Action - Mail Destination

How to get here

Use this dialog to configure an Email Action.

Note: Alert Center email notifications and WhatsUp Gold email actions use the same configuration dialog. Changes that you make in the Alert Center will also be made to the email action in the Action Library. Likewise, changes that you make to an Email Action in the Action Library will be made to the email notification in the Notification Library.

Note: On the web interface, click Mail Content to configure the email message contents. This feature is disabled when configuring an Alert Center email notification.

Enter the appropriate information into the following fields.

• Name. Enter a unique name for this action.
• Description. Enter a short description of the action. This is displayed in the Action Library along with the entry in Name.
• SMTP Mail Server. Enter the IP address or Host (DNS) name of your email server (SMTP mail host).
• Port. Enter the port number on which the SMTP server is installed.
• Timeout. Enter the amount of time (in seconds) to wait for user authentication on the SMTP server. The authentication fails if this time limit is exceeded.
• Mail To. Enter the email addresses to which you want to send the alert. Email addresses must be fully qualified. You can enter two addresses, separated by commas (but no spaces). The address should not contain brackets, braces, quotes, or parentheses.
• Mail From. Enter the email address that will appear in the From field of the email that is sent by the Email action.
• SMTP server requires authentication. Check this option if your SMTP server uses authentication. This enables the Username and Password fields.

  The Email action supports three authentication types:

  • CRAM-MD5
  • login
  • plain

  The authentication type is not configurable. It is negotiated with the SMTP server automatically.

• Username. Enter the username to be used with SMTP authentication.
• Password. Enter the password of the username to be used with authentication.

• Use an encrypted connection (SSL/TLS). Check this option if your SMTP server requires the data to be encrypted over a TLS connection (formerly known as SSL).

Click OK to save changes.

Tip: To check the status of an action, or to cancel an action, on the console go to Tools > Running Actions.