# Using the Email Notification Manager

Use the Email Notification Manager to notify users by email of events that occur on enclosures connected to a management station. You type the recipient's name and email address in the email notification list. The recipient is notified of all or selected events that occur on the enclosure.

You can use the Email Notification Manager to:

- Add a recipient to the email notification list
- Delete a recipient from the email notification list
- Modify recipient properties in the email notification list
- Send a test message to a recipient in the email notification list
- Configure the Email Notification Manager

The Email Notification Manager is enabled by default. To disable the Email Notification Manager, click Actions Disable Email Notifications. If you disable the Email Notification Manager, events are generated but users do not recieve email notification when the events occur.

## An example

You install SystemA in a lab with a network-attached storage enclosure. You add a management station agent on SystemA to monitor for events and problems. You want to monitor SystemA from your workstation but do not have ServeRAID Manager installed. You open the SystemA Email Notification Manager from the ServeRAID Manager and add your name and email address to the email notification list. You are notified by email of all problems and events that occur on the enclosure attached to SystemA.

## The Email Notification Manager and its events

Events monitored by the Email Notification Manager include the following:

- Progress information, such as rebuilds, synchronizing, and migrations.
- Problems, such as defunct physical drives and PFA errors.
- Changes to the local configuration, such as creating a hot-spare drive or defining a logical drive.

Each event has an event type indicating its severity: error, warning, or informational. You can configure a recipient to be notified of errors, errors and warnings, or errors, warnings, and informational events.

The Email Notification Manager logs events to a logging file, RAIDSMTP.LOG. If this file exceeds 200 KB, the ServeRAID Manager copies the file to RAIDSMTP.OLD and creates a new RAIDSMTP.LOG. If there is a RAIDSMTP.OLD already, the ServeRAID Manager overwrites it. The Email Notification Manager appends SMTP transport errors in a separate log file, SMTPERR.LOG.

## The Email Notification Manager interface

The Email Notification Manager consists of the following:

Toolbar
  Provides quick-path icons for common tasks.
Email notification list
  Displays the recipients configured to receive email notifications.

## More information

- The Email Notification Manager menubar
- The Email Notification Manager toolbar
- The Email Notification Manager message format
- Using the management station agent

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