Trap Mailer helps you to mail the received traps to the configured addresses. To configure the trap mailing option, please follow the steps given below:

Step 1 : Configure the Mail addresses

1. From the Trap Viewer, click Configure Mail to open the Mail Configuration Wizard.

2. Specify the following and click Configure:
   1. Subject: Subject of the mail
   2. From: From address of the mail
   3. To: To address of the mail. You can specify all the to addresses as comma separated.
   4. MailServer: Name of the mail server
   5. Suppress KeyWord: This is an optional field. Specify the key words (as comma separated), for which mails should not be sent. In other words, no mails will be sent if the received trap messages that contains the key words specified here.
   6. Mail/Hr: Number of mails to be sent in one hour. Traps received exceeding this number will not be mailed, but will be logged if the logging option is enabled in the Trap Viewer.

The values specified here will be written on to an XML file. When you click the Configure Mail button from the Trap Viewer again, the values will be retrieved from the XML and will be shown here.

Step 2 : Select the Enable Mailing check box. Selecting this option will enable the Trap Viewer to send the received traps by mail to the configured addresses.

Note: Configuring the mail addresses alone will not send any mails. Only if the Enable Mail option is selected, mails will be sent.