Netscape NETSCAPE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM 4.5, Installation And Setup Manual

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Chapter 16
Setting Up Automated Notifications
Netscape Certificate Management System can send email notifications
automatically when certain events occur. Unlike jobs that are executed on a
preconfigured schedule, these notifications are event-driven—that is, whenever an
event occurs, the server notifies the user. Notifiable events include certificate
issuance and pending requests in an agent queue.
This chapter describes event-driven notifications supported by Certificate
Management System and explains how to turn them on. The chapter has the
following sections:
• Automated Notifications (page 551)
• Customizing Notification Messages (page 554)
• Configuring a Subsytem to Send Notifications (page 559)
Automated Notifications
You can configure the Certificate Manager and Registration Manager to send
automated email notifications to end entities, agents, or administrators when
events relevant to these users occur. The email notifications are event-driven—that
is, whenever an event occurs, the subsystem generates the notification message
and sends it to the user. Event-driven notification involves a listener class in the
subsystem that registers an interest in an appropriate event, for example,
successful completion of an enrollment request.
Notifiable events include the following:
• Notifications of Certificate Issuance to End Entities—end entities are notified
by email that a requested certificate has been issued.