January 8 2009

can a cisco router send an alert email when a serial port or the line protocol is down?

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Tags: 3f, cisco, Cisco Ios, Running, Serial Port, Smtp Email

madaharry asked:


Cisco 2801 running Cisco IOS 12.4(3f)
If it is able to send an smtp email, please include instructions how to do so. Thanks.

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2 Responses to “can a cisco router send an alert email when a serial port or the line protocol is down?”

1. jman466 says:

   January 10, 2009 at 1:11 pm

   The router itself will NOT generate an email – it can however generate an SNMP Trap and send it to your Network Management Station for alerting/paging, etc. It can also send a syslog message if you have a parser for such messages (hopefully you do).
2. Mustafa Aksu says:

   January 11, 2009 at 9:48 am

   Yes, it is possible with your IOS version. By using new features of EEM. I plan to write an article about it but it is not ready yet.
   You can try custom search to have an idea.

   Mustafa AKSU