On enabling the mailing option in the Trap Viewer tool, the
tool will send mail for the traps received, to the addressee
mentioned in the configuration. Alerts the Operator/Administrator
about the status of the device through e-mail.
Details
Configuration for sending the E-Mail : Mails will
be sent to the Administrator/ Operator based on below configured
details
Subject of Mail
Outgoing Mail Server Name
From Address
To Address, (comma separated mail id's)
Suppress Keyword. (comma separated keys)
Number of Mails/hr. Above configured details will
be stored in a XML configuration file.
All the configuration is stored in XML file. On startup,
configured details will be fetched from XML and populated
in the UI.
Mails also can be suppressed. There are two options
to suppress the mails
Match the keyword : Trap/INFORM message, If
it contains the keyword, If keyword matches, then mails
will not be sent to the Operator/Administrator.
Number of mails/hour : This options will send
as many mail specified in the configuration. Say mails/hour
is configured as 10, only 10 mail will be sent irrespective
of the no of traps received. other trap will be logged.
(Example : mails/hour=10, Total number of traps received
= 100, only 10 mails only will be sent to the mail recipient
and other 90 traps will be logged).
Logging facility : logging of traps will done
for traps for which mails are not sent (ie.all the traps
contains suppress keyword, traps received after the
reaching the number of mails/hr. is configured) will
be logged.
