Adding an SMTP Server Using the CLI

To configure an SMTP server for email notifications, perform the following steps:

To add a SMTP server:

  1. Enable the CLI configuration mode:
    hostname > enable
    hostname # configure terminal
  2. Enable email notifications:
    hostname (config) # fenotify email enable
  3. Set the mail relay address used to send the email notifications:
    hostname (config) # fenotify email mailhub address ip_address
  4. Set the mail port used to send the email notifications (default port is 25).
    hostname (config) # fenotify email mailhub port port-number
  5. Set the domain from which emails appear to come:
    hostname (config) # fenotify email domain email-domain
  6. Set the user name in the return address for email notifications (the default is do-not-reply):
    hostname (config) # fenotify email return user-name user_name
  7. (Optional) To include the hostname in the return address for email notifications:
    hostname (config) # fenotify email return host-name host_name
  8. Save the configuration:
    hostname (config) # write memory