Hi,
I'm trying to configure an email alert for vCenter 6.5 server alarm but the email alert cannot send the email to user.
I have configured the "email server" and "email sender", "SMTP server" and "SMTP credentials" for the email sender email.
After that I create an alert trigger for testing purpose.
But when the error occured, I didn't receive any email notification. After that I check the vCenter event log. The log said "cannot send email to testing@testemail.com".
I already check the VMware KB for configuring email alerts on VMware vCenter but the vCenter still cannot send any email.
Can anyone tell me if there another step that i missed when configure email alert on VMware vCenter 6.5?
This is my first time setting an email alert in vCenter Server
Thank You
Sorry for my bad english
How is your SMTP server configured to accept relays? Is it on the default port? Does it require authentication? You likely have some special configuration that's required which is why it's failing.
Hi daphnissov
Thanks for your reply
I used port 25 for the smtp server. And yes it require the authentication for the smtp user email. I already test the email alert on another monitoring software like dell open manage essentials and its work using the same configuration. About the SMTP server accept relay i think i have to discuss it with the email administrator.
You need to check vpxd.log on your vcenter server for the time when you see the error in Events. There should be some additional information.
vCenter Server does not support authentication with SMTP using SSL/TLS, so that's probably your issue.
Hi Finikiez
thanks for your advice i will check the vpxd.log and update the the error in this post ASAP.
Hi daphnissov
thanks for your reply..
If vCenter didn't support SMTP using SSL/TLS, do i have to reconfigure email without using SMTP??
or is there any other way to solve this??
Thanks
vCenter does support SMTP email relay but without authentication.
you have to tell your exchange administrator to create a email recive connector with vCenter Ip and anonymous authentication enabled.
that should do it..
Hello Herry, Perhaps you forgot some part. please try to look into this settings Select your vCenter Server and go to Configure menu Under General, provide your Mail server (e.g mail.smtpserver.com) and mail sender (e.g vcenter-notification@smtpserver.com) Once done, go to Advance Settings and look for "mail.smtp.password" and provide the value by clicking the Edit same with "mail.smtp.port" and set port 25 then lastly, provide the "mail.smtp.username" Once done click Ok Then perform some testing to see if it works. Good Luck!
Hi VM_JOf
I already try this step but the result still same.
I want to ask you when configure smtp in "Advanced Setting" the "mail.smtp.password" and "mail.smtp.username" is the authentication for mail sender right?
I see the VMware KB it said after we configure mail sender and SMTP authentication, we have to create a custom alam to test it but i didn't use the custom alarm but use the default alarm from vCenter. whether the problem is because i use the default alarm not custom alarm?
Thanks for you advice i'll try to tell the email administrator to create a email receive connector with vCenter IP
As I said earlier
vCenter Server does not support authentication with SMTP using SSL/TLS
so if this is your case then it will continue to fail until you provide a relay that is open as mentioned by others in this thread.
So it can only send mail alerts via anonymous relay?
Yes .. that is correct