Netscape Certificate Management System 6.2, Administrator'S Manual

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Setting Up Automated Notifications
Chapter 12 Automated Notifications 569
9.
Customize the notification message templates. See “Customizing Notification
Messages,” on page 570.
10.
Test your configuration. See “Testing Your Configuration,” on page 569.
Configuring Specific Notifications By Editing the
Configuration File
1.
Stop the server instance whose configuration file you will be editing.
2.
Open the
CMS.cfg
file for that server instance in a text editor.
3.
Edit all of the configuration parameters for the notification type you are
enabling and configuring.
The parameters for this feature are identified as
ca.notification
for a
Certificate Manager and
ra.notification
for a Registration Manager.
4.
The parameters for a particular notification message are explained in the
procedure in the section “Setting Up Automated Notifications,” on page 567.
5.
Save the file.
6.
Restart the server instance.
7.
If you set up a job that sends automated messages, check that your have
correctly set up a mail server. See “Mail Server,” on page 257.
8.
If you set up a job that sends automated messages, you can customize those
messages. See “Customizing Notification Messages,” on page 570 for details.
Testing Your Configuration
To test whether the subsystem you configured sends email notifications:
1.
Change the email address in the notification configuration for the Request In
Queue notification to your email address.
2.
Go to the end-entity interface and request a certificate using the
agent-approved enrollment form.
When the request gets queued for agent approval, you should receive a
Request In Queue email notification. Check the message to see if has the correct
information.