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Hawary
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Jun 07, 2015

Alert Email Notification

Hi All,

 

I need to send email notification if for example node or pool get down. I have v 11.5 and i tried to use the following links:

 

SOL3667: Configuring SNMP trap alerts to send email notifications

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/3000/600/sol3667.html?sr=392739

 

SOL3664: Configuring BIG-IP to deliver locally-generated email messages

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/3000/600/sol3664.html

 

but my smtp server needs authentication, so how to pass a username and password for authentication?

 

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    Hawary
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    Jun 08, 2015

    Hi Nitass,

     

    thank you for your response. actually you are right, it is my mistake i put the wrong link. i used the link you provided before but there is no authentication. as per your link, the authentication is on the version 11.0.0 - 11.4.1 but not for 11.5 which i have here, so my question is how to authenticate against the smtp server?

     

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    Hawary
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    Jun 08, 2015

    i tried to edit the ssmtp.conf file and add the following to the file:

     

    UseTLS=yes

     

    AuthUser=, here i tried many like user, user@domain.com, domain\user

     

    AuthPass=

     

    But get the following error:

     

    SSL_connect: Success

     

    send-mail: Cannot open smtp:25

     

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    Hawary
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    Jun 08, 2015

    yes, i'm able to telnet to smtp over port 25 from bigip.