Configuring Delivery Settings Parent topic

The delivery settings allow you to specify email and SNMP trap settings to deliver system and policy event notification messages.

Procedure

  1. Go to AdministrationNotifications.
    The Events tab appears by default.
  2. Click the Delivery Settings tab.
  3. Under Email Settings, configure the following:
    • To address(es): Specify the recipient email addresses.
    • Sender's email address: Specify the email address to appear as the sender.
    • SMTP server address: Specify the Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN) or the IP address of the SMTP server that delivers email on the network.
    • SMTP server port: Specify the port number that IMSVA uses to connect to the SMTP server.
    • Preferred charset: IMSVA will use this setting to encode the notification messages.
    • Message header: Specify the text to appear at the top of the notification.
    • Message footer: Specify the text to appear at the bottom of the notification.
  4. Under SNMP Trap, configure the following:
    • Server name
    • Community
    • SNMP version
    Option Description
    Server name
    Specify the FQDN or IP address of the SNMP server. SNMP Trap is the notification message sent to the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) server when events that require administrative attention occur.
    Note
    Note
    SNMP servers do not support IPv6-formatted addresses.
    Community
    Specify the SNMP server community name. Community is the group that computers and management stations running SNMP belong to. To send the alert message to all SNMP management stations, specify 'public' as the community name.
    SNMP version
    Select either of the following:
    • SNMPv1
    • SNMPv2c
    For more information, refer to the SNMP documentation.
  5. Click Save.
    If you are using the Configuration Wizard, click Next.