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Configuring the SMTP server for portal email

This topic provides information and instructions for configuring the SMTP server for portal email:

Available commands

The following commands are available for retrieving details about the email configuration of the 

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portal and adding or modifying the email configuration:

Report Administration Utility commands to configure an SMTP server

blrptadmin command

Description

get emailconfig

Gets the email configuration parameters of the SMTP server that enable email from the BMC BladeLogic Decision Support for Server Automation portal.

set emailconfig

Configures the SMTP server to enable email from the BMC BladeLogic Decision Support for Server Automation portal.

You can use this command to add or modify the portal email configuration.

Enter the following parameters:

  • SMTP Server name: Name of the email server. For example, mailhost.abc.com.
  • (Optional) Port number: Port number on which the email server listens. For example, 25.
  • Default sender email address: Email address through which notifications will be sent from BMC BladeLogic Decision Support for Server Automation via SMTP relay. For example, down_brian@abc.com.
  • (Optional) SMTP Server user name: User name of the email account from which notification will be sent and authentication will be done. For example, dbrian.
  • (Optional) SMTP Server password: Password for the user name of the email account, by which SMTP server will authenticate the user.

After executing the set emailconfig command, stop and then restart the

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portal to encrypt the SMTP user name and password. To restart the portal, use the procedure for your operating system type.

To stop and restart the portal on a Microsoft Windows OS

  1. From the command line, navigate to the BDSSAInstallationDirectory\portal\bin (32-bit environment) or BDSSAInstallationDirectory\portal\bin64 (64-bit environment) directory.

  2. Run the following commands in order:

    cogconfig.bat -stop
    cogconfig.bat -s

To restart the portal on a UNIX-like OS

  1. From the command line, navigate to the BDSSAInstallationDirectory/portal/bin (32-bit environment) or BDSSAInstallationDirectory/portal/bin64 (64-bit environment) directory.
  2. Ensure that the shell has execution permission.

  3. Execute the following scripts in order:

    cogconfig.sh -stop
    cogconfig.sh -s

 

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BMC Decision Support for Server Automation 8.3