How To Use An Office365 Account For E-mail Alerting In Neverfail Continuity Engine

How To Use An Office365 Account For E-mail Alerting In Neverfail Continuity Engine

Summary

This KB article explains how you can use Office365 account to configure the Neverfail Continuity Engine e-mail alerting feature.

More Information

a) Make sure that you have a valid Office365 account (user and password).
b) Open this webpage using the account that will be configured as the sender in Engine email settings: https://mysignins.microsoft.com/security-info
c) On that page you have an option to “Add sign-in method”, click on that, select App password, enter any name you want for the option and after that copy the new password that was created.
                                                 
d) In Neverfail Advanced Management Client go to Logs / Mail Settings section and configure the SMTP server and e-mail settings like as in the screenshot below, using as password the one that was generated at step c).
                                       
f) Also in Neverfail Advanced Management Client go to the Logs / Configure Alerts / Red, Yellow and Green Alerts section and add the recipients and the alerts for which you wish to receive e-mails.
g)  Test the configuration from the Logs section of the Neverfail Management Client, by clicking on the Test Alert Reporting button. If the configuration is correct you should receive an email alert from your server running Neverfail Engine.
                                      


Applies to

Neverfail Engine v8.x-v12.x


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