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How to Test Pure Storage Email Alerts

How to Test Pure Storage Email Alerts

Quick byte today – Let’s talk about sending a test email alert from your Pure Storage FlashArray. Whether you leverage an SMTP relay in your environment or simply would like to ensure storage alerts are being sent, we can test e-mail notifications via CLI commands. For this example, we will assume the relay host and sender domain have been specified. If not, these can be set from the GUI under System > Configuration > Alerts. Test Email Alert from Pure…

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Configure vCenter Mail Sender and E-mail Alerts

Configure vCenter Mail Sender and E-mail Alerts

An update in the vCenter 6.5b patch that I have been anticipating is the ability to change the mail sender address vCenter utilizes for email alerts. Releases prior to 6.5b sent e-mail alerts from root@VCSA_FQDN by default. Even if the Mail Sender was changed within the appliance, e-mails would still have that same root return-path. This proved to be problematic in environments who leveraged SMTP relay servers to pass e-mail authentication or encryption (ie. Office 365 relays). Relay servers in those…

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