Notification handlers

Notification handlers carry out the steps to send notifications of different types to users. The notifications are sent based on the action service templates that are configured through the administrative console panels of the Adaptive Action Manager.

There are four types of notifications: alert, e-mail, cell phone, and pager. Each of these action services requires the same type of template data to be stored in the action service catalog database using the Adaptive Action Manager administration panels. Notification handlers are divided into two types:
The required data in the notification template is as follows: There may be variables defined within the subject or body of a notification. They are mapped to field values within the Common Base Event or the business situation event, which are read by the handler. The data values within the Common Base Event are substituted into the corresponding variables. E-mail, cell phone, and pager notifications are sent as e-mails to an SMTP server that the user has defined. The Adaptive Action Manager alert handler sends to the Runtime database the subject, body, events, and list of user IDs to be stored. The emitted alert notifications can be displayed through the Alerts view in the dashboards component of WebSphere® Business Monitor.
Related tasks
Creating a new notification template
Updating a notification template
Related reference
Notification data fields

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