Defining Notifications

Use Notifications to create output files based on task statuses and send those output files to email addresses or any Output Device defined in CA Automic Applications Manager. To use Notifications, you:

You define Notification objects, and then assign them to Process Flow components, Jobs, Applications, and Program Types. A sample Notification definition is shown below. If a task has Notifications defined for it in multiple objects, all Notifications are performed.

Notification definition

Prerequisite: Specifying Email Settings

In order to send Notification emails, you must specify email settings for the CA Automic Applications Manager Automation Engine/Local Agent.

Creating Notifications

To add Notifications using the CA Automic Applications Manager client:

  1. From the Notifications Selector window, click New.
  2. CA Automic Applications Manager opens the Notifications window.

    For information on using selector windows, see Adding, Editing, and Deleting CA Automic Applications Manager Objects.

  3. Enter a name and description for the object.
  4. After creating the Notifications object, add Notification details.

Adding Notification Details

To add Notification details to a Notifications object:

  1. From the Notifications window, click the New button.
  2. CA Automic Applications Manager opens the Notification Details window.

  3. Complete the fields in the Notification Details window using the information below.
  4. To save the settings and add the Notification detail, click OK.
  5. CA Automic Applications Manager adds the Notification detail to the Details table on the Notifications window.

    Notification details are evaluated in the order they are listed. If you wish to reorder them, use the arrow buttons to the right of the list.

Assigning Notifications

After you have defined a Notification object, you can assign it to Process Flow components, Jobs, Applications, and Program Types. If you assign the object to an Application, the Notification will apply to any Job assigned to that Application. The same holds true if you assign the object to a Program Type. Being able to assign Notification objects to Applications and Program Types makes it easy to set up Notifications for a whole class of Jobs.

Notification Field Description

Deleting Notification Output Files

When you define a Job, you can set the number of days the output will be retained by CA Automic Applications Manager in the Retention days setting on each Job's Output tab. When a Notification is assigned to the Job, it will use that Job's retention days to determine when to delete the Notification's log files.

The SODELETE Job (alias DELDEFAULT) deletes the output files that have exceeded their retention settings.