MX280001A Vision™ Remote Spectrum Monitor Software : Trace Acquire : Setting Up Email Notifications
 
Setting Up Email Notifications
The Anritsu Vision Acquire Program provides a user interface screen to set up email notifications of the signal trace status. The settings shown in Figure: Email Notifications – File Folder Location can be used to setup email notifications.
Email Notifications – File Folder Location
1. Click the folder icon at bottom-right as shown in Figure: Email Notifications – File Folder Location. Browse to the database folder that has been created.
2. Set the sweep time to obtain sweep data.
3. Select Automatic archiving of trace tables:
• None: Set to None if automatic archiving of log files is not required
• Time Based: Set to Time Based if archiving is required based on the selected Sweep Monitors time-interval. Select an appropriate option to set archiving based on the available time-interval.
• Size Based: Set to Size Based if archiving is required based on the size of the trace tables.
4. Check Daily and Weekly check boxes.
5. Click the Gear icon to configure the email service.
6. Check User Authentication box, and create user name and password.
7. Enter your email address and click Test button to test the email configuration.
8. Select 1 hour for Violation Email Rate.
9. Click OK.
10. Click Sweep Monitors. The Green progress bar should move across the bottom every 3 seconds.
11. Click ‘View Log’, scroll to the bottom of the log file.
12. Verify that there is activity, but no error reports. The log updates and auto-scrolls every few seconds.
To setup email notifications of Trace Status, refer to Figure: Email Notifications Setup User Interface.
Email Notifications Setup User Interface
1. Email Address Field
2. Email Reporting Duration
3. Generate Status Report
4. Send Email
5. Gear Icon
6. Delete Email
7. Add New Email
The toolbar icons used for notifications settings are shown below in Table: Email Notifications Icons.
Email Notifications Icons
Icon
Description
Generate Status Report: A report titled Vision Monitor Failure and Status Report is generated and placed in the default browser.
Send Email to Selected Address: Click to immediately send an email to the listed email recipients with the list of traces in the database.
Configure e-mail
Click to open the Email Configuration dialog as shown below. Enter the Host name and Port Number of the email server. If the User Authentication box is checked, enter the User name and Password for the email account listed. Enter the email address in the E-mail Addr field. Make sure to enter valid email address, otherwise no email will be sent. If needed, refer to your IT administrator for assistance and the necessary information.
Violation Notification Options
List provides the time interval the email notification will be sent.
Violation E-mail Rate
Send email violation notifications to recipients at the interval rate shown.
Sweep: Send email notification after every sweep.
1 hour: Send email notification after every 1 hour.
4 hours: Send email notification after every 4 hours.
Never: Email notifications are not sent.
 
Only report frequent Violations
Click the check box and set the Failure Threshold % value so that trace mask violations report can be sent when the threshold exceeds the set value.
Format
Check the radio button as:
Summary: Provides a summarized email list and reporting. See Figure: Vision Monitor Summary Violation Report.
Detailed: Provides a detailed listing of the recipients and email reports. See Figure: Vision Monitor Detailed Violation Report.
Audible Alarms
Provides an audible alarm when a mask violation occurs.
Test
Click to display an Enter Recipient dialog as shown below. Adding an email and clicking OK will send a test email to verify email server configuration.
Delete an email address
Click to delete an email address from the Notifications list. A prompt will display to confirm you want to remove the email from the list. Click Yes and the email is deleted.
Add new email address
Click to add a new email to the Notifications list. A box containing [New] will be listed under the Email Address column. Type the email address into that box.