Email / SMTP Settings

Avi Vantage proactively sends emails. This is done for password reset operations, or as a result of a triggered alert action that calls for email notifications to be sent to administrators or monitoring systems. Emails are sent from the Avi Controller, which means the Avi Controller will require DNS and network access to a destination email server.

The SMTP source is where the email will be sourced from when the Avi Controller is sending an email.

Note: Starting with the releases 17.2.12 and 18.1.3, Avi Vantage also supports non-TLS SMTP servers.

View or Modify Email / SMTP Settings

  1. Navigate to Administration > Settings > Email/SMTP.
  2. To edit the settings, click on the edit icon.
  3. Click Save when finished.

Email / SMTP Settings

  • None: When set to None, Avi Vantage will not send emails.
  • Local Host: The Avi Controller will send the email from a local host. Some enterprise email servers may not accept this method.
    • From Address: The email field denoting who sent the email.
  • SMTP Server: Avi Vantage can point to a remote SMTP server to use for sending emails. This method is generally more trusted by the staff of security conscious enterprise environments.
    • Username: The username to authenticate to the mail server.
    • Password: The password to authenticate to the mail server.
    • SMTP Server: The mail server host.
    • Port Number: The service port for SMTP, generally 25.
    • From Address: The email field denoting who sent the email.
  • Anonymous SMTP Server: Like the SMTP Server option but without th eneed of a username and password to log into the SMTP server. (The SMTP server must allow anonymous access.)
    • From Address: The email field denoting who sent the email.
    • SMTP Server: The mail server host.
    • SMTP Port: The service port for SMTP, generally 25.

Time zone for e-mail Alert Notifications

By default, the Controller uses UTC time when generating timestamps in the alert notification e-mails.

To configure the timestamps to reflect a specific timezone, use the following configuration through the CLI:


configure systemconfiguration
email_settings
email_timezone < imezone >
save
save

The list of valid timezones can be found by pressing the Tab key. For instance, for the timezone Europe/London, use email_timezone europe_london.

Using non-TLS SMTP servers

To use non-TLS SMTP servers, TLS option should be disabled implicitly. Login to the Avi CLI and run the following commands using the configure systemconfiguration mode.


configure systemconfiguration
email_configuration
disable_tls
save
save