Alerts are a combination of a message and a transport for delivering that message. A message could be in different formats such as plain text, XML, etc and transports could be any of the supported ones. Alerts created can be reused across different policies.
In the dashboard, go to ALERTS > POLICY MANAGER > SMTP/JMS to manage SMTP/JMS alerts.
In the classic dashboard, the Alert Manager panel under the Monitoring section lists the alerts and the Transport Type. This is a paged data grid and the pages can be navigated by using the next 
and previous 
buttons. Refresh button reloads the alerts from the Alert Repository. Clicking on an alert displays the details of that alert.
Figure 1: Alert Manager screen before adding SMTP/JMS alerts
SMTP alert
Alert messages are delivered as an Email via the SMTP Transport protocol. This is used to notify users asynchronously about certain events occurring in the system. Default message content will be in a readable text format. The content can be changed to reflect a context-specific message. This transport is not ideal to start or execute a workflow.
Adding an SMTP alert
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In the SMTP page, click the Add button. Click the Add button, select the SMTP option and provide property values for the new SMTP alert.
Property Name | Description |
NotificationID | Unique identifier of the notification. one should use meaningful IDs to make it easier to reuse this alert in multiple policies. |
| Sender's address | The email address of the sender sending the notification. |
| Sender's name | The sender name as it appears on the email client. |
To | The intended recipient of the notification. |
CC | The list of recipients to be carbon copied. |
BCC | The list of recipients to be black carbon copied. |
| Reply to | Mention if the reply needs to be addressed to a different e-mail ID. |
| Override default transport settings | Enable this and edit the transport settings if alert-specific transport settings need to be set overriding the default transport settings. |
Click the Add button to add the alert to the list.
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Click the Add button on the upper-right part of the Alert Manager page to add new alerts. A drop-down list of available transports is listed and on selecting a transport, a panel that describes the message format for that transport is displayed.
If Transport Settings property is enabled, the Alert Manager will use the transport parameters specified in this alert and the default transport settings are ignored.
Figure 2: Alert Manager with SMTP alert details
Property Name | Description |
| Notification Type | Type of the notification - SMTP or JMS. |
NotificationID | Unique identifier of the notification. one should use meaningful IDs to make it easier to reuse this alert in multiple policies. |
| Sender's name | The sender name as it appears on the email client. |
To | The intended recipient of the notification. |
CC | The list of recipients to be carbon copied. |
BCC | The list of recipients to be black carbon copied. |
| Sender's address | The email address of the sender sending the notification. |
| Sender's name | The sender name as it appears on the email client. |
| Reply To | Mention if the reply needs to be addressed to a different e-mail ID. |
| Override default transport settings | Enable this and edit the transport settings if alert-specific transport settings need to be set overriding the default transport settings. |
JMS Alert
This alert will be used to notify an end-user or a program via the JMS transport asynchronously. This transport is typically used to start a workflow based on this alert condition, and the default message content is in XML format which can be read/parsed by a system to execute a set of workflow actionables. The Fiorano Event Process can also be used to execute this workflow with the inbound listening to the destination defined in this alert.
Adding a JMS alert
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Click the Add button, select the JMS option and provide property values for the new JMS alert.
Property Name | Description |
| Alert Type | Type of the notification - SMTP or JMS. |
Notification ID | The identifier for this notification. |
Message Priority | The priority of the JMS Message created. |
TimetoLive | TimetoLive property of the JMS Message created. |
| Destination Name | The name of the destination on which the Notification message has to be published. This can be a topic or a queue and the corresponding destination type has to be specified. |
Destination Type | The type of target Destination (Queue or Topic). |
Delivery Mode | The Mode of delivery. Persistent or non-persistent. Persistent messages are stored in the hard drive if the in-memory buffer is full and are guaranteed to be delivered. |
AutoCreateDestination | Specifies whether to create the destination if it is not present in the target server. |
Over-ride Default Transport Settings | Specifies whether the transport settings specified in this alert are to be used or the default server settings are to be used. If true, the settings local to this alert will be used. |
Fiorano Esb Classic Webconsole
Click the Add button on the upper-right part of the panel to add new alerts. A drop-down list of available transports is listed. On selecting the JMS Transport, the Add New JMS Alert window is displayed.
Figure 4: Alert Manager with JMS alert details
Property Name | Description |
| Notification Type | Type of the notificaton - SMTP or JMS. |
Notification ID | The identifier for this notification. |
| Over-ride Default Transport Settings | Boolean to indicate whether the default transport settings to be used or the alert specific transport settings have to be used. If true, it means that the alert specific setting has to be used. |
Destination Name | The name of the destination on which the Notification message has to be published. This can be a topic or a queue and the corresponding destination type has to be specified. |
Destination Type | The type of target Destination (Queue or Topic). |
Delivery Mode | The Mode of delivery. Persistent or non-persistent. Persistent messages are stored in the hard drive if the in-memory buffer is full and are guaranteed to be delivered. |
Message Priority | The priority of the JMS Message created. |
| AutoCreateDestination | Specifies whether to create the destination if it is not present in the target server. |
TimetoLive | TimetoLive property of the JMS Message created. |
Editing and Removing an Alert
Editing an alert
Alerts can be edited by clicking the Details icon in the dashbaord and the Edit 
icon in the classic dashboard.
Removing an alert
Alerts can be removed by clicking the Delete 
button in the dashboard and the minus icon in the classic dashboard.