Notification settings

After every synchronization process, you can automatically send an email message containing a summary of the process and whether or not it was successful.

The client generates an email message for each synchronization type, and lists all items that have been added, deleted, and updated, including totals

We recommend you set up a notification summary for the following reasons:
  • If you intend to schedule the Directory Synchronization Client to run automatically, the email notification gives you a historical record of your synchronizations.
  • You can use the emails to confirm that synchronization with the cloud service completed successfully. The total numbers of additions and deletions in the email messages should match the totals in the cloud service logs.

To set up notifications:

Steps

  1. From the Email notifications drop-down list, select the type of notification you want to send.
    1. Summary sends a summary of the synchronization process.
    2. Summary + Log (WARNING) sends a summary and all log messages with the level WARNING or higher.
    3. Summary + Log (INFO) sends a summary and all log messages with the level INFO or higher.
    4. Summary + Log (FINE) sends a summary and all log messages with the level FINE or higher.

    For a definition of log message levels, see Directory Synchronization Client Log Files.

  2. Enter your mail server name (for example smtp.acme.com).
  3. The Directory Synchronization Client supplies default message subject headers for success and failure notifications. Edit these if required.
  4. In the From field, enter the address to use for originating the email.
  5. In the To and CC fields, enter the email addresses to send the summary email to. Separate multiple recipients by commas.
    An example email summary notification might look like this:
    Sync Client Mail Synchronization Report
Replace operation to file completed
Time:         Fri Jun 27 10:38:12 GMT 2008
Host:         bloggs.acme.com
User:         fredbloggs
Configuration:example
Updated domains
    acme.com
Up-to-date domains
    test.acme.com
Unknown domains
    None
Updates
    4 additions
        lyndonb@acme.com
        stellad@acme.com
        miken@acme.com
        nickyb@acme.com
    2 deletions
        philm@acme.com
        waynek@acme.com
Invalid addresses
    None
Failed updates
    None
Addresses in domains not configured on the repository
    None