Configuring Application Repository and Event Manager Mail Services

This section describes configuration settings for the Application Repository and Event Manager mail services. For distributed installations, you configure these settings directly on the Event Manager and Application Repository servers. The SMTP settings apply to both the Event Manager and Application Repository. If these components are installed separately, update each server with the SMTP server information. You can change these settings any time after installation by running SBM Configurator in utility mode.

POP3 Options

The SBM Event Manager can only receive events from a POP3-compliant mail server. To use this feature, you must set up a dedicated account on the POP3 server and establish an e-mail address that you want to use to accept the e-mailed event requests.

SBM can retrieve the ALF event from either a plain text body (single part e-mail message) or the last plain text part of a multi-part message. SBM does not process single part messages that contain only HTML. Some POP3 mail servers are able to convert single part HTML messages into multi-part messages that also contain plain text equivalent HTML. If you are using this type of POP3 mail server, you can send HTML-only messages as well.

To enable the Event Manager to process incoming e-mails, select the Use POP3 Mail Server for the Event Manager check box and enter the following information:

Field	Description
Host	The network name of your POP3 e-mail server. The local host name appears by default; however, it is likely that your mail server resides on a different machine.
Port	The port used by the POP3 e-mail server. POP3 typically uses port 110.
Use SSL	Enable SSL to receive messages through a secure connection. The default SSL port is 995.
User name	The e-mail account name for the inbox that your POP3 server provides.
Password	Enter the password for the e-mail account.
Confirm Password	Enter the password again to confirm it.

SMTP Options

To enable the Event Manager and Application Repository to send e-mail notifications, select the Use SMTP Mail Server for the Event Manager and Application Repository check box, and then enter the following information:

Field	Description
Host	Enter the SMTP server host name.
Port	Enter the SMTP server port number.
Notification "From" e-mail address	Enter the "From" address that appears for failure notification messages from the Event Manager.