User’s guide, Battery management system – APC Battery Management System User Manual

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USER’S GUIDE

Battery Management System

37

DNS

Use this option to define the IP addresses of the primary and secondary
Domain Name System (DNS) servers used by the Battery Management
System’s e-mail feature. The primary DNS server will always be tried first.

Send DNS Query (Web interface).

Use this option, available only

through the

DNS

menu in the Web interface, to send a DNS query that tests

the setup of your DNS servers.

Use the following settings to define the parameters for the test DNS
request; you view the result of the test DNS request in the

Last Query

Response

field (which displays

No last query

or text describing the query

result of the last test).

• Use the

Query Type

setting to select the method to use for the DNS query:

– The URL name of the server (

Host

)

– The IP address of the server (

IP

)

– The fully qualified domain name (

FQDN

)

– The Mail Exchange used by the server (

MX

)

• Use the

Query Question

text field to identify the value to be used for the

selected

Query Type

:

– For

Host

, identify the URL.

– For

IP

, identify the IP address.

– For

FQDN

, identify the fully qualified domain name, formatted as

myserver.mydomain.com

.

– For

MX

, identify the Mail Exchange address.

See

Email Recipients

and

DNS servers

.

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