Email Notification

The Email Notification object sends emails to a specified address regarding new and unacknowledged error logs. It is a child of the Element Management System object.


An alarm on this object mean that it will not send any email notifications about new and unacknowledged error logs. If the object remains alarmed for a long time, stop and restart the EMS Server. If the alarm condition persists, contact your MetaSwitch support personnel.


Parameter

Access

Description
Email notifications - status Change Enables or disables email notifications. Values:
  • Enabled
    Email notifications will be sent according to the settings of the other fields in this object.
  • Disabled
    No email notifications will be sent for any logs.
SMTP server address Change The address of the SMTP server that the notification email needs to use. Specify the server address.
Mail server EMS account address Change The account from which the notification email is sent. Specify an email address.
Recipient address Change The account to which the notification email is sent. Specify an email address.
Mail server requires authentication Change Indicates whether the SMTP mail server requires a user ID and password. Values:
  • True
  • False (default)
Mail server user ID Change This field only appears if Mail server requires authentication is set to True. Indicates the user ID required by the SMTP server. Specify the user ID.
Mail server password Change This field only appears if Mail server requires authentication is set to True. Indicates the password (matching the Mail server user ID) required by the SMTP server. Specify the password.
New log notifications - status Change Indicates whether notifications of new logs should be sent. Values:
  • Enabled
  • Disabled (default)
New log notifications - severity threshold Change Indicates the lowest severity that will trigger a new log notification. Values:
  • 90
  • 80
  • 70 (default)
  • 60
  • 50
  • 40
  • 30
  • 20
  • 10
  • 0
New log notifications - interval Change Indicates how often new log notifications should be sent. Values:
  • 5 minutes
  • 15 minutes (default)
  • 30 minutes
  • 1 hour
  • 3 hours
  • 5 hours
  • 10 hours
  • 1 day
  • 3 days
  • 1 week
New log notifications - max notifications per interval Change Indicates the maximum number of full notification messages that may be sent during the period of time set in New log notifications - interval. Full details about each log will be sent by email until this limit is reached. If further logs occur during the interval, they are not reported individually, but are summarized in a single email at the end of the interval. Range: 1 - 100 Default: 5
Unacknowledged log notifications - status Change Indicates whether notifications of new logs should be sent. Values:
  • Enabled
  • Disabled (default)
Unacknowledged log notifications - interval Change Indicates how often unacknowledged log notifications should be sent. Values:
  • 5 minutes
  • 15 minutes (default)
  • 30 minutes
  • 1 hour
  • 3 hours
  • 5 hours
  • 10 hours
  • 1 day
  • 3 days
  • 1 week
Alarm state Read only The alarm state of log collection. Values:
  • Clear
    The object does not currently require maintenance action.
  • Attention Required
    The object requires maintenance action.
Alarm log correlator - Attention Required Read only Identifier of the log message for the event that caused the last Attention Required alarm state for this object. This field is reset when the Attention Required alarm events field is reset to zero.
Attention Required alarm events Read only / Reset Number of times (since this field was reset) that this object's alarm state has gone to Attention Required.
Alarm log correlator - Attend To Dependent Read only Identifier of the log message for the event that caused the last Attend To Dependent alarm state for this object. This field is reset when the Attend To Dependent alarm events field is reset to zero.
Attend To Dependent alarm events Read only / Reset Number of times (since this field was reset) that this object's alarm state has gone to Attend To Dependent.
Alarm state changed timestamp Read only Time at which the Alarm state last changed.
Alarm events reset timestamp Read only Time at which the Alarm events field was last reset to zero.