Subscribing to email subscription notifications

You subscribe to email subscription notifications if you want event notification messages to be sent to a specified email address.

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Note: If you used the email notification service in a version of WSRR before version 7.5, and you upgrade to WSRR V8.5, your configuration settings are migrated automatically to the new email subscription notification configuration, and email notification messages will continue to be generated after you have completed your upgrade; for more information, see Upgrade considerations if you are using the email notification service.
To subscribe to email subscription notifications, you must complete the following steps:
  1. Configure a mail session in the WebSphere Application Server administrative console.
  2. Enable the subscription notifier scheduler.
  3. Ensure that JMS notification is enabled.
  4. Create an email subscription object for each user who would like to receive notification emails.
  5. Optionally, you can configure the email templating feature to customize the layout of the email notification messages.
These steps are described in the following subtopics:
  • Configure the connection details and timeout for the SMTP server
    When WSRR is installed a default WSRRMailService is configured that uses an SMTP protocol provider defined in WebSphere® Application Server.
  • Enabling the subscription notifier scheduler
    To activate your subscription notifiers, you must enable a WSRR scheduled task. When enabled, the task runs periodically to check for changes to subscribed objects, and notifies the subscription end points by using a subscription notifier of the associated type; for example, email subscription notifier, HTTP POST subscription notifier.
  • Ensuring that JMS notification is enabled
    If you want to use a subscription notifier, you must ensure that JMS notification is enabled. This is because the event notification messages that are processed by a subscription notifier are sent to a JMS queue.
  • Creating an email subscription object
    You must create an email subscription object if you want notification messages to be sent automatically to an email address, or addresses, in response to specified user actions. You use the REST API to create the subscription object.
  • Optionally, configure the email templating feature
    The content of an email notification message is defined by using a combination of an email template and an email properties file, each of which is loaded into WSRR as a configuration item of type EMAIL_TEMPLATE.
Parent topic: Subscription notifier
Related tasks:
Subscribing to HTTP POST subscription notifications
Configuring a custom subscription notifier