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== Email notification ==
== Email notification ==


Certain modules support the sending of email notifications. The following settings are used to globally configure the used SMTP server and the target email address that will receive the notifications:
Certain modules support the sending of email notifications. The following settings are used to globally configure the SMTP server used  and the target email address that will receive the notifications:


* Enable email notifications: globally enables or disables the sending of email notifications.
* Enable email notifications: globally enables or disables the sending of email notifications.
* SMTP server address: the address of the SMTP server that will be used to send out notification emails.
* SMTP server address: the address of the SMTP server that will be used to send notification emails.
* SMTP server port: the TCP port on which the SMTP server is listening.
* SMTP server port: the TCP port on which the SMTP server is listening.
* SMTP server uses SSL: must be set to On if the SMTP server expects an SSL connection from the very start. If the SMTP server uses no SSL or STARTTLS this setting must be set to Off.
* SMTP server uses SSL: must be set to On if the SMTP server expects an SSL connection from the very start. If the SMTP server uses no SSL or STARTTLS this setting must be set to Off.
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* From email address: the email address from which incident notifications will be sent.
* From email address: the email address from which incident notifications will be sent.
* Target email address: the email address to which incident notifications will be sent.
* Target email address: the email address to which incident notifications will be sent.
* Email links base URL: this base URL will be used to generate the HTML links in notification emails. Since the device cannot by itself determine the proper address by which it is visible to the email recipient this setting can be used to set the right URL prefix for links sent with the notification emails.
* Email links base URL: this base URL will be used to generate the HTML links in notification emails. Since the device cannot by itself determine the proper address by which it is visible to the email recipient this setting can be used to set the correct URL prefix for links sent with the notification emails.
* Send periodic system status mail: if set to hourly or daily a system status email will be sent to the configured target address with the selected frequency. It will contain basic system information and system health status, management interface configuration and a list of detected LLDP neighbors if the management LLDP feature is enabled.
* Send periodic system status mail: if set to hourly or daily, a system status email will be sent to the configured target address with the selected frequency. It will contain basic system information and system health status, management interface configuration and a list of detected LLDP neighbours if the management LLDP feature is enabled.


The Send test email button can be used to verify that the entered settings are working.
The Send test email button can be used to verify that the entered settings are working.
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