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Veritas Access 7.3 Administrator's Guide

Last Published: 2019-04-04

Product(s): Access (7.3)

Platform: Linux

Section I. Introducing Veritas Access
1. Introducing Veritas Access
Section II. Configuring Veritas Access
Section III. Managing Veritas Access storage
Section IV. Managing Veritas Access file access services
Section V. Managing the Veritas Access Object Store server
1. Using Veritas Access as an Object Store server
Section VI. Monitoring and troubleshooting
1. Monitoring events and audit logs
Section VII. Provisioning and managing Veritas Access file systems
1. Creating and maintaining file systems
Section VIII. Configuring cloud storage
1. Configuring the cloud gateway
  1. About the cloud gateway
  2. Configuring the cloud gateway
2. Configuring cloud as a tier
Section IX. Provisioning and managing Veritas Access shares
Section X. Managing Veritas Access storage services
Section XI. Reference
1. Appendix A. Veritas Access documentation
  1. Using the Veritas Access product documentation
  2. About accessing the online man pages
2. Appendix B. Veritas Access tuning
  1. File system mount-time memory usage

Configuring an email group

Veritas Access can be configured to send email messages to users or groups of users through an external SMTP server.

To display attributes of an email group

To display attributes of an email group, enter the following:
```
Report> email show [group]
```
where group is optional, and it specifies the group for which to display the attributes. If the specified group does not exist, an error message is displayed. For example:

To add a new email group

To add a new email group, enter the following:
```
Report> email add group group
```
where group specifies the name of the new email group and can only contain the following characters:
- Alpha characters
- Numbers
- Hyphens
- Underscores
If the entered group already exists, then no error message is displayed. For example:
```
Report> email add group alert-grp
OK Completed
```
Multiple email groups can be defined, each with their own email addresses, event severity, and filter.

To add an email address to an existing group

To add an email address to an existing group, enter the following:
```
Report> email add email-address group email-address
```
group
Specifies the group to which the email address is added. The email group must already exist.
email-address
Specifies the email address to be added to the group.

To add a severity level to an existing email group

To add a severity level to an existing email group, enter the following:

Report> email add severity group severity

group

Specifies the email group for which to add the severity. The email group must already exist.

severity

Indicates the severity level to add to the email group.

See About severity levels and filters.

Only one severity level is allowed at one time.

You can have two different groups with the same severity levels and filters.

Each group can have its own severity definition. You can define the lowest level of the severity that triggers all other severities higher than it.

To add a filter to an existing group

To add a filter to an existing group, enter the following:

Report> email add filter group filter

group

Specifies the email group for which to apply the filter. The email group must already exist.

filter

Specifies the filter for which to apply to the group.

See About severity levels and filters.

The default filter is all.

A group can have more than one filter, but there may not be any duplicate filters for the group.

To delete an email address from an existing group

To delete an email address from an existing group, enter the following:
```
Report> email del email-address group email-address
```
group
Specifies the group from which to delete the email address.
email-address
Specifies the email address from which to delete from the group.

To delete a filter from an existing group

To delete a filter from an existing group, enter the following:
```
Report> email del filter group filter
```
group
Specifies the group to remove the filter from.
filter
Specifies the filter to be removed from the group.
See About severity levels and filters.
The default filter is all.

To delete an existing email group

To delete an existing email group, enter the following:
```
Report> email del group group
```
where group specifies the name of the email group to be deleted.

To delete a severity from a specified group

To delete a severity from a specified group, enter the following:
```
Report> email del severity group severity
```
group
Specifies the name of the email group from which the severity is to be deleted.
severity
Specifies the severity to delete from the specified group.
See About severity levels and filters.

To display mail server settings

To display mail server settings, enter the following:
```
Report> email get
```

To add a mail server and user account

To add a mail server and user account from which email notifications are sent out, enter the following:

Report> email set [email-server] [email-user]

email-server

Specifies the external mail server from which email notifications are sent out.

email-user

Specifies the user account from which email notifications are sent out.

If email-user is specified, then the password for that user on the SMTP server is required.

To delete the mail server from sending email messages

To delete the mail server from sending email messages, enter the following command without any options:
```
Report> email set
```