The Notification tab allows you to send an email notification when the StarPipes service encounters errors, or encounters errors or warnings. The SMTP mail server must be able to direct email to the user accounts specified in the Recipients list and accept any value as the sender.
Complete the Email Properties to enable sending notifications from the StarPipes service to one or more email addresses. If you need to disable this feature, unselect the Enable email notifications checkbox. The notification feature and the Test button are enabled only when all required fields have values.
Important: You may need to restart the StarPipes service after modifying the Email Properties.
Complete the following fields to enable the email notification feature. The StarPipes service automatically adds a Subject line to each email that identifies the severity of the notification: StarPipes Information Notification, StarPipes Warning Notification, or StarPipes Error Notification.
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Enable email notifications |
Select this checkbox to enable email notifications. |
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Recipient List |
Select the Recipient List button to add or delete recipients. For each recipient, select the Add button and enter a valid email address, in the form of name@domain.com. |
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From |
The From field can contain any character string. The text that you enter appears in the From field of the notification email. If one person will receive StarPipes notifications from multiple computers, you can use the From field to identify the computer from which the notification is sent, such as StarPipes Service on COMPUTERNAME. If you are sending the notifications to another person you may want to enter your own email address in the From field, in the form of yourname@domain.com, to help identify the origin of the email and provide a valid address for return communications. |
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SMTP Server |
Specify the Internet address of an SMTP server that provides outgoing email service. An Internet address can be an IPv4 address, an IPv6 address, or a DNS domain name. If the SMTP server requires authentication, enable SMTP Server requires authentication and enter a user and password. |
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Port |
Specify the number of the port on which the SMTP server is listening for sendmail requests. The default port number is 25. |
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SMTP Server requires authentication |
Select this checkbox if your SMTP server requires authentication. Note that this is often optional if the domain of the recipients matches that of the SMTP server. |
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User ID |
User ID for the SMTP server. |
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Password |
Password for the SMTP server. |
Click the Test button to send a test email to the specified recipients, and click OK to save the properties. If you want to discontinue sending notifications to email, unselect the Enable email notifications checkbox.
In the Message Types pane you select which type of messages you want to receive. You can choose one of the following message categories, with All being the most inclusive.
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All |
Sends an email when a group of subscriptions completes successfully or encounters warnings or errors. For groups of subscriptions that perform incremental replication, notifications also are sent if there are errors polling the source, if the subscription is paused, and when incremental counters are reset. |
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Warning and Errors |
Sends an email if a group of subscriptions encounters a warning or error. |
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Errors Only |
Sends an email if a group of subscriptions encounters an error. |