Red Hat CERTIFICATE 7.1 ADMINISTRATOR, Administrator'S Manual

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Setting Up Automated Notifications
Chapter 13 Automated Notifications 547
9.
Customize the notification message templates. See “Customizing Notification
Messages,” on page 548.
10.
Test your configuration. See “Testing Your Configuration,” on page 547.
Configuring Specific Notifications By Editing the
Configuration File
1.
Stop the server instance whose configuration file you will be editing.
2.
Open the
CS.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 545.
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 250.
8.
If you set up a job that sends automated messages, you can customize those messages.
See “Customizing Notification Messages,” on page 548 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.