Publish scheduled alerts

You can publish scheduled alerts as email, web service or using custom publishers.

This task shows you how to:

See Also
Create an alert group

Publish the alert as an email

  1. Still in the same alert group details, click Add Alert Publisher.
    1. Enter a descriptive Name, for example email to user.
    2. Select Send by email.
  2. Specify the addresses and content:
    1. From address: Specify the sender address you want to display in the email.
    2. To address: Replace mycompany.com with your company’s domain name. ${USER} is a variable, and will automatically be populated with the end-user’s login name.
    3. Feed to render: Specify the Mashup feed to include in the email, by default this is cloudview. You must verify that this is the correct feed. This is the mashup feed that determines which document matches which query.
  3. (Optional) Modify the Email Format.
    1. Title: Modify the format for the email subject line.
    2. Templates directory: Specify a different directory for the template file that defines the message format. The default template directory is <INSTALLDIR>/resource/all-arch/alerting/mail/templates.
    3. Template file: Specify a different template filename. Templates are based on FreeMarker.
  4. For SMTP Server: Set the properties for outgoing mail transport:
    1. Host: SMTP Server host.
    2. Port: SMTP Server port.
    3. Username: admin user name on the SMTP server.
    4. Password: admin password on the SMTP server.
    5. Use TLS: Activates Transport Layer Security encryption.
  5. Click Go Live.

Publish the alert to a web service

Before you begin: You can publish the alerts to a web service for both real-time and scheduled alerting.
  1. Still in the same alert group details, click Add Alert Publisher.
    1. Enter a descriptive Name.
    2. Select Push to Web service.
  2. In Address, specify the URL for the web service.
  3. Select the Format output, either Atom or JSON.

    The http publisher sends the acces-api response in POST. See Define timestamp offsets for incremental alerts (Optional).

  4. Click Go Live.

Publish the alert using custom publishers

Before you begin: You can publish alerts using custom publishers for both real-time and scheduled alerting. For more information, see Custom Scheduled Publisher in theExalead CloudView Programmer's Guide.
  1. Still in the same alert group details, click Add Alert Publisher.
    1. Enter a descriptive Name.
    2. Select Custom.
  2. In Class id, select your custom publisher.
  3. Click Go Live.