Alerts and reports walkthrough

Alerts and reports walkthrough

Email alerts and reports: SMTP, recipients, the 17 alert rules, the elected sender, and the daily, weekly and monthly reports with preview, send now and schedule. BoxLang+.

What it shows

1. Where it lives: Settings, then Notifications. Admin only, BoxLang plus.
2. The main switch: Alerts are off until you turn them on.
3. How mail is sent: BxLens sends the mail itself, over SMTP.
4. The sender and the password: The password is never typed in the console.
5. Send a test mail: See the answer of your SMTP server in plain words.
6. Who gets mail: Up to fifty people, each with their own filters.
7. Severity and categories: Warnings and critical, or critical only; none ticked means all.
8. Reports, per person: The last column: daily, weekly, monthly.
9. Fifteen alert rules: Server down to errors in the logs, all off.
10. Switch an alert on: Then set its severity, its limits and how often it repeats.
11. Turn the whole thing on: The main switch sends mail for the rules you chose.
12. One server sends: The elected sender: the lowest id that is alive.
13. Firing now, and mails sent: Firing mail once, reminders, then a resolved mail.
14. Reports: Daily, weekly and monthly, for the whole cluster.
15. Preview the weekly report: Nothing is sent by a preview.
16. What is in a report: Highlights, totals, and a table per server.
17. Daily and monthly: Same layout, a different period.
18. Send one now: To everyone subscribed, or to one address.
19. Schedule: Time and zone, weekday, day of the month.
20. Let Lensy do it: Ask in plain words, then approve the change.
21. Free and BoxLang plus: Notifications and reports are BoxLang plus; this is the current state.

Read more

Notifications and Email reports.

See all the walkthroughs.