Netgear XSM4324FS Software Administration Manual Software Version 12.x - Page 448

M4300 Series and M4300-96X Fully Managed Switches Email Alerting Email alerting is an extension of the logging system. The logging system allows you to configure a set of destinations for log messages. This feature adds the email configuration, through which the log messages are sent to a configured SMTP server such that an administrator can receive the log in an email account of their choice. This feature is enabled globally. When email alerting is enabled, selected log messages are sent to an SMTP server. Log messages are divided into three groups by severity level: urgent, nonurgent, and never. Figure 48. Log message severity levels The network administrator can adjust the urgent and non-urgent severity levels. These levels are global and apply to all destination email addresses. Log messages in the urgent group are sent immediately to the SMTP server with each log message in a separate mail. After a delay period that you can configure, log messages in the nonurgent group are placed in a batch in a single email message. Email alerting also provides a configuration option that allows the network administrator to specify the severity level at which SNMP traps are logged. Using this option, the administrator can put traps in the urgent group, the non-urgent group, or the never group for emailing. Traps are not emailed by default. For traps to be emailed, the network administrator has to either increase the severity at which traps are logged, or lower the severity level of log messages that are emailed. The network administrator can configure multiple destination email addresses, and for each email address, specify whether to deliver urgent log messages, nonurgent log messages, or both. When the log buffer is full, an exception occurs to how messages are sent to the SMTP server. When the log buffer is full before the periodic timer expires, the periodic timer is ignored and all log messages that were not sent previously are immediately forwarded to the SMTP server. Syslog 448 Software Administration Manual