You are using MOI in production and would like to start using email notifications. In this situation there is no SMTP user authentication required (mail server only verifies the source IP). However, in MOI the username and passwords are defined as mandatory fields for email notification.
The resolution below details how to remove the user name and password from the SMTP authentication.
Release: 2.0.05
Code changes have been incorporated into the MOI 2.0.05 and higher releases to allow the SMTP IP only security to work. In addition, the following procedure has been developed to step the through the process of removing the user id and password from the notification property file so that the SMTP IP only security will work.
Manual steps for changing email configuration after initial installation of MOI release 2.0.05 and higher to remove the username and password values:
Username and password are mandatory fields while configuring MOI email notifications. If the SMTP server at your site does not authenticate username and password then you can set a temporary username and password in ISPF panels and edit configuration file to erase username and password. Below are the detailed steps to configure MOI email notifications without username and password after MOI 2.0.05 has been initially installed.
Please contact Broadcom Support if you have any questions/issues with this process.