Email notifications from Dell OpenManage?

Excellent !

Thanks a lot Nick

Nick, I downloaded the file and edited the config.xml file but I get an error when I try to execute the program. It states:

system.formatexception: the specified string is not in the form required for an email address at system.net.mine. Any ideas why it's not working?

Thanks

Hi.

Looks like you have changed format of config.xml file. Unfortunately I'm not a programmer that's why never change code. Please make sure that all basic settings like that:

   SMTPServer="server IP"

   SMTPPort="smtp port"

   From="from address"

   To="to address"

   CC=""

   Username=""

   Password=""

   Subject="Test">

   This is a message from DELL server

Do not remove any lines if you don't need it!!! Just leave "" empty.

Hope that helped.

Hi,

i know this post is a bit old, but there still seems to be a lot of people who still want to be able send email's from openmange if there is a hardware issue.  Have a look at the below for Openmanage on ESX, it runs a free perl script that you upload to the server

http://www.itconsulting.com.au/blog/installing-dell-openmanage-71-vmware-vsphere-esx-4x-email-alerts/

i have had a go and it works well

have a good day

Hi Nick,

When I put my settings in the xml , and try to run the EXE I am getting

System.ArgumentException: The parameter 'address' cannot be an empty string.
Parameter name: address
   at System.Net.Mail.MailAddress..ctor(String address, String displayName, Enco
ding displayNameEncoding)
   at DellSMTPNotify.Program.Main(String[] args)

Any advise, or am I possibly doing something wrong? I have the email address fields in the config file filled out.

THANKS!

Disregard - I found the formatting problem!

Thanks,

There are 4 updated links:

DellSMTPNotify.zip (4 KB)

rapidshare.com/.../DellSMTPNotify.zip

depositfiles.com/.../8pxdp8v0y

rghost.net/.../DellSMTPNotify.zip

mega.co.nz

Any chance you could post this again?  Just found this thread... thanks in advance.  (I am still dumbfounded as to why Dell does not include SMTP alerts within OpenManage.)

oops never mind, thanks!

this really is great, thanks so much.   Still wish OMSA had a global alert, still a pain to setup individual alerts for every category.  Dell really should just have a checkbox in there somewhere that says something like 'if something goes wrong send an email to this address'.   Really freaking simple, how hard is that?

Does somebody know why the email notification does not work with a smtp server from gmail ?

SMTP operation failed with the following details: Server:173.194.69.16; Port:465(A value of -1 indicates default); Username:email; Error Message: time-out error

Regards.

I have found only one suggestion from google - how to send email from printer, scanner or app but it didn't help me to send via gmail.

Regards,

Nick

Thanks Nick this really helped for me, connect to aspmx.l.google.com on port 25. Since we are using open dns i used the ip adres from the smtp server 173.194.67.26

Regards,

George

I downloaded DellsmtpNotify and filled in my Gmail settings, but keep getting timeout when testing it.

smtp.net.mail.smtpException: The Operation has timed out.

  at System.Net.Mail.SmtpClient.Send(Mailmessage message)

  at DellSMTPNotify.Program.Main(String[] args)

-------------this is my settings-----------

   SMTPServer="smtp.gmail.com"

   SMTPPort="465"

   From="actual email here"

   To="an working email"

   CC="another email"

   Username="my gmail address"

   Password="gmail password"

   Subject="server critical Alerts">

   see the error and act accordingly

Please help ! :(

Also, you using the DNS name for the relay server may have something to do with it. Do you have an internal IIS SMTP relay to test with? Should be free/easy to set up if you have OM installed on a windows server box. I've used it with 2003 and 2008 both.