Action services templates

Action services templates define information to be used by the Adaptive Action Manager in invoking a particular action service.

Action services templates are defined by the Adaptive Action Manager administration panels from the administration node on theWebSphere® Application Server administrative console.

Notification templates, such as the alert notification template, typically contain the subject, body, addressee list, a user-defined LDAP query that determines the user ID or e-mail addresses of those who can display the alert or to whom the notifications are sent, and variables for the notification. Other templates, such as Web services templates, contain the information necessary to initiate their services.

The notification templates define the alert, e-mail, cell-phone, and pager contents. Variables can be inserted into the LDAP query, the subject, and the body. They are delimited by %VariableName%, which is embedded inside their entry field. The VariableName is substituted from the event, into its respective field similar to a variable in a batch file. The # character can be used as an escape character to allow % characters to be evaluated as literals. For example, a subject field with value "We are at %UsagePercent%#" will undergo substitution and could be "We are at 97%" when the notification is sent.

The Web services template contains the web service parameters that are required for invoking a Web service.

To define a template, you need to define the configuration parameters for each template in the template definitions pages in the administrative console. You can also modify those parameters later or delete the entire template.

Templates are further bound to situation events so that, when the event is received, the appropriate action services are invoked

Related tasks
Registering an action service
Updating action services template definitions

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