Setting Up and Sending Email Notifications

Using the Email Notifications page, you can set up the SMTP connection, compose the email notification structure, define when to be informed of license expirations and low instance counts, and indicate whether to be notified of a NIC MAC address change.

Procedure

In the Local License Server Settings Tool, select the Email Notifications tab.
Select Turn ON/OFF Email Notifications.
Email notifications are turned off by default as indicated by the red color.
In the SMTP Connection tab, enter the following information:
1. Server: SMTP server URL or IP address.
2. Port: SMTP server port.
3. To set SSL authentication, select Enable SSL.
4. To enable anonymous authentication, select Anonymous.
5. If user credentials are required by the SMTP server, select User/Password, and then enter the user name and password.
6. Select Save.
Select the Email Set up tab to define the following email components, set the time for sending email notifications, and then send a test email:
1. From: Indicate the email address from which you are sending the email notifications.
2. Subject: The application comes with a preconfigured subject that you can modify accordingly.
3. To: Enter the email addresses to receive the notifications. You can send email notifications to multiple recipients by separating each email address with a semi-colon.
4. Message: Enter the contents of your message.
5. Set the hour and minutes for sending daily email notifications.
6. Send a test email by selecting Send Test Email.
7. Select Save.
In the Other Settings tab, do the following:
1. Enter the license expiration days for the License Expiration Report and the Device Expiration Report.
  By default, your email notifications include licenses expiring in the upcoming 30 days in the License Expiration Report, and list clients with license leases expiring in the upcoming 15 days in the Device Expiration Report. These reports are sent daily at the time you specified in the Email Set up tab.
2. To receive email notifications when the available licence instance count on any activation code reaches a certain percentage, enter this percentage in Notify me if I am running low of license instances on an activation code. For example, the default value of 20 informs you when the available license instances on an activation code reaches 20 percent or less.
  A value of zero does not send notifications. A value of 100 sends an email listing all license instances regardless of their availability status.
  Note:
  - Available licenses do not include reserved licenses. If you require more licenses on an activation code, clear some license reservations or add more licenses.
  - When there is only one license in use on an activation code, a notification is not sent.
3. To receive email notifications of any NIC MAC address change, select the Notify me if the NIC MAC address has changed check box.
4. Select Save.