Now, if you are trying to get in touch with a, a human being,
you probably have a lot of different options. You can call him on the phone,
you can send him an e-mail, text message, etc.,
communicator, whatever. And, that's the same thing with these
Contacts that we see here in Notifications.
By default, when you are working with Active Directory, you will
notice that there is a delivery endpoint called
Email that just kind of comes along for the ride with Active Directory.
And, I can add more to that,
though. So, for example, if there's an alternate e-mail,
both his work e-mail and his home e-mail, I can just go into
Bob's record here, his, his contact information,
and choose a new delivery endpoint. And that new
delivery endpoint can be a variety of
different options here. Well, a variety of
two. By default, it can be e-mail
or a web service. And each one has its own
configuration elements. Now, there are, are,
is a third one that's available for download. You will not find it here
by default. It's the Office Communications Server
Plug-in. That's basically a new delivery
channel that will allow you to get in touch with somebody
via communicator. So, you know, these are
the different types of ways you can communicate with people
through Notifications, and if you have
got some wonderful whizzbang application,
you know, that's even better than all these, you are going to use
Twitter or you are going to use Facebook postings, or whatever,
and you develop that on your own, we have got
hooks into adding that as a new delivery channel.
Now that's way beyond the scope of this class,
but, if you are interested in that, please give us a con... contact us at
training@osisoft.com. We will point you in the right direction.
There's some good examples of creating your own delivery
channels that we can share with you if you are interested.
Okay, I want to undo what I just created there.
Undo that checkout. Now, there we
go. Now, also, you can go into this section
here, this Contact Section, and create a brand new
delivery endpoint that is not associated with any
Contact. That's actually fairly useful for things that are programmatic
like web services. You know, sometimes there may be something that
you would like to route a
Notification to it, but there's no real contact involved.
Okay, so let's take a look at some of the options that are
available to you when you do configure a new delivery
endpoint. Let me go ahead and create a new delivery endpoint for Bob Smith.
As you can see, there's these op... standard options you
see here. One of them's called Notify on Close, and what that means is
that we are simply going to notify, or we are
going to trigger this delivery, if there
is no longer the conditions that triggered this
Notification. It's essentially the Notification's closed, so
we let people know. There's also the option to
have this retry and you can retry
at a certain maximum number of retries with an interval
specified here as, you know, minutes, seconds, days, etc.
So, these are some of the standard options every
delivery endpoint will have, whether it's going to be
e-mail or web service. And then, of course, you can
specify what
type of delivery channel you want this delivery endpoint
to use as its mechanism for communicating.
As I said, that is extensible. And you
can, right now, today, download the Office Communicator Server,
or Office Communications Server
Delivery Channel and use that as well to communicate this
using Communicator. Well, as you can see,
each delivery channel is going to have its own configuration items.
This is the e-mail delivery channel,
and so, naturally, we specify the, you know,
the communication information here. Let's go with --
this is bsmith@hotmail.com.
As his e-mail address.
And then, what we are specifying this From
e-mail for is that, that's simply, simply saying
everybody who receives this Notification is going to be --
get if from that user, and if you choose Global, that's
their Global Configuration. This can be Custom for
a, per e-mail. And then, finally, we do have the Priority.
Oh, by the way, here's one last thing I forgot
to show you, is this option here. It's in the newer
version of Notification. I just noticed I was running
an older version, so I have just updated to the latest release.
As you can see, you can choose the format that you want
in addition to that, that Priority like we
saw before. Now, lastly, we have this field
as to whether we include that Acknowledgement
Link in the e-mail body itself, and you
can either say Yes or No. Now, this, only with Standard Input,
will make a little bit more sense later on when we take a look
at the Standard Content Options that are available
within the -- specifying
the content in your Notification. It's basically
saying if you have chose this elsewhere to include
Standard Content, then you would in, in fact,
include it here. And this would override that
other setting. So that would say Yes in all instances.
So that's the Default, and we will just go ahead and keep that.
Now, do not miss the little Test Button over here. This is going to
allow you to go ahead and test that, see if the -- your SMTP
Server's working and configured properly. And,
might as well mention it now. If it does not work, then,
by all means, go back to your Notifications Section here.
Go into Tools, Notification Settings,
and look under the Delivery Channels, and this is where that
SMTP Server Setting is set.