Notification Properties Dialog Box

The Notification Properties dialog box allows you to add a notification and change identifying properties for a notification. On this dialog box, you specify properties such as the name of the notification, the type of audit message to which it responds, and the person receiving it. The following tabs comprise the Notification Properties - Edit dialog box:

  • General
  • Response
  • Advanced

Notification Properties dialog box - General tab

Table 1. General tab parts and functions
Part Function
Name Indicates the name of the notification.
Enabled Activates the notification to be sent if/when the specified audit message is processed to the Audit Log.
specific message Indicates that the notification is a response to a specific audit message being processed to the Audit Log.
group of messages Indicates that the notification is a response to any of a group of audit messages being processed to the Audit Log.
Source Indicates the system or functional system area (such as Sterling Gentran:Server®, Archive, or user system) generating the audit message that will initiate the notification.
Component Indicates the part of the specified source generating the audit message (such as the Translator) that will generate the audit message that will initiate the notification.
Message ID The identifying number between 1 and 65,535 of the audit message that will initiate the notification.
... Shows a list of audit messages defined in the system.
Note: If source and/or component values are entered, the list is filtered to display messages for the source and component.
Severity Indicates the magnitude of the error or status of the event that will initiate the notification. Severity levels are:
  • Information
  • Warning
  • Error
  • Audit Success
  • Audit Failure

Notification Properties dialog box - Response tab

Table 2. Response tab parts and functions
Part Function
Task to execute Indicates the Notification Type Process Control event that the notification will initiate. This box displays any Notification Type Process Control events previously defined to Sterling Gentran:Server.
User ID/Name Indicates the IDs and names of operators to notify.
Alert Indicates that the notification action generates an alert to the operator.
E-mail Indicates that the notification action generates an e-mail to the operator. You cannot enter a value in this field if there is no e-mail address defined for the operator.
Pager Indicates that the notification action generates a page to the operator. You cannot enter a value in this field if there is no pager address defined for the operator.

Notification Properties dialog box - Advanced tab

The Advanced tab allows you to configure the pager and e-mail responses sent to Operators. For numeric pagers, you can select to either have the error number sent to the pager (this is the default option) or you can add numeric text to the message.

For alpha pagers and e-mail Notification responses (note that alpha pagers may have a limited text size), the system sends a pre-formatted message by default. For example, Sterling Gentran:Server Notification (Notification Name). You can optionally choose to add error message text (for example Message 01-01-01 Partner not found) and/or you can add your own text in the Additional Notification Message to send to operator box.

For regular Alert responses, the system uses any text supplied in the "Additional Notification Message to send to operator" box to include in the Notification Message Text that is supplied in the Notification Log.

The following table describes the parts of the Notification Properties - Edit dialog box (with the Advanced tab active):

Table 3. Advanced tab parts and functions
Part Function
Include error message text Specifies that all of the following is to be included in the notification information sent to the operator:
  • Descriptive text of the error message initiating the notification
  • Date and time of the error
  • Event ID of the event
Additional notification message text to send to operator Specifies any additional text to be sent to the operator receiving the notification.
Note: For alpha pagers and e-mail Notification responses (note that alpha pagers may have a limited text size), the system sends a pre-formatted message by default.
Page using message number Specifies that the audit message number precipitating the page is included in the notification text sent as part of the numeric page.
Page using numeric Message Specifies that any numeric text entered is included as the notification text that is sent as part of the numeric page.