Defining E-Mail and Text Notifications of Alarms

To configure e-mail and text message notifications, select "Email Setup" from the "Configure" drop-down menu. The display shown below will be displayed:


Initial e-mail / text message setup screen.

There are two quasi-independent definitions to be setup on this screen.

For each alarm action that is to use e-mail / text notifications, the following must be specified

An SMTP server address

A sender address

Authentication credentials (if required)

SMTP port

Delivery protocol must be specified, as well as a descriptive label.

For each person to whom e-mail alarms are to be delivered, the following must be specified

A description, email or cell phone number (and appropriate provider)

Enter the desired alarm criteria

Alarm actions

The figure below shows the dialog with the necessary SMTP information filled in in order to deliver an email alarm for alarm action 1.




If sending alarms to a cell phone number, some information about the provider must be provided. For example, to send an alarm to phone number 530-277-4476 using provider Verizon, the address should be 5302774476@vtext.com.

A list of SMS information can be found at https://avtech.com/articles/138/list-of-email-to-sms-addresses/