Contacts

The contacts page allows you to setup people who will need to be notified of an alarm via email or an SNMP trap.

 

 

 

 

Email

 

To add contacts to be notified via email it is necessary to define the SMTP server to use to send the email and configure an email contact on the email tab.  On the people tab click the New button and the add contact screen will appear.

 

Enter the name, phone number and email address and then click save.  To then enable email for events go to the Settings-Events menu and enable contact notification for each event that an email should be sent out for.

 

Email SMTP Sever Settings- In order to send email notifications out, it is necessary to define a SMTP mail server to use for event notifications.  Click on the Email button to bring up the  following configuration page.

 

 

SNMP

 

To add contacts to be notified of events via SNMP traps, click the SNMP tab and click the add button on the bottom of the page.

 

 

If necessary  contact your system administrator for the information to enter.

 

Enable PowerAlert version 11 SNMP notifications-This allows administrators to add PowerAlert 12 to a network already utilizing PowerAlert version 11 and SNMP notifications without having to upgrade everything to PowerAlert version 12 at the same time.

 

Please note that enabling these SNMP settings does not configure PowerAlert to send SNMP traps.  To configure PowerAlert to send SNMP traps it is necessary to Use the settings-events menu to configure which events will send SNMP notifications.