Add SMTP Server Settings

You can add SMTP Server Settings to receive notifications for the analysis completion or failure along with the analysis report over the email.

Prerequisites

• Verify that you can access the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics user interface.

• Verify that you have the administrator privileged user credentials to log in the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics.

• Verify that you have SMTP server, port, user name, password, and email address of the sender.

Caution:

The VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics does not support SMTP server behind the proxy. You must use local SMTP server or internal SMTP server in such case.

Procedure

1. Log in to the VMware Skyline Health Diagnostics user interface on a supported web browser using a user with administrator privilege.
2. Click on the Settings tab from the top-menu.
3. In the left pane, select Notification Settings.
4. On the Email tab, enter the SMTP configuration details and click Add.

   Property	Value
   Server	Enter the SMTP server FQDN or IP address.
   Port	Enter the SMTP server port.
   User name	Enter the user name.
   Password	Enter the password.
   Security	Set the security to None or STARTTLS or SSL-Implicit as appropriate.
   Sender	Enter the sender's email address.

Results

The configuration for email notification is encrypted and saved.

Example: Settings for Microsoft Office 365 and Local Host SMTP server.

Settings for Microsoft Office 365 as SMTP server.

Refer to Microsoft Office documentation and check with your respective administrator to configure the Office 365 SMTP server. Following is an example for using Office 365 SMTP server.

Property	Value
Server	smtp.office365.com
Port	587
User name	[email protected]
Password	Password for [email protected]
Security	TLS-STARTTLS
Sender	[email protected]

Settings the Local host as SMTP server.

You can use local host with port 25 leaving the user name and password empty. Set the security as None. Following is an example for using local host SMTP server.

Property	Value
Server	Local host
Port	25
User name	Optional
Password	Optional
Security	None
Sender	[email protected]

What to do next

Add Distribution Group configuring the email address of recipients.