The manager can notify users of work order status changes
by sending emails to users. To use this feature, you must configure
the unified web application WAR file to use an email server before
you install the WAR file to the application server.
Before you begin, determine which Simple Mail Transfer
Protocol (SMTP) server you are to use to send email notifications.
You must have the following information about the SMTP server:
- Host name or IP address
- Port number
- User name and password if SMTP authentication is enabled
To configure the unified web application WAR file for
email notification of work order changes:
- Use a file compression utility to extract the \WEB-INF\web.xml configuration
file that is packaged in the unified web application WAR file. The WAR file is shared_installation_directory/web/app/optim.unified.web.app.war,
where shared_installation_directory is
the installation directory that you specified for the IBM Optim Shared package
group. For example, the default location for the
WAR file on Microsoft Windows is C:\IBM\InfoSphere\Optim\shared\web\app\optim.unified.web.app.war.
- Use a text editor to open the extracted \WEB-INF\web.xml configuration
file and search for the following parameters:
<init-param>
<param-name>mailSMTPHost</param-name>
<param-value>@smtphost@</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>mailSMTPPort</param-name>
<param-value>@smtpport@</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>mailSMTPAuth</param-name>
<param-value>@smtpauth@</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>mailSMTPUser</param-name>
<param-value>@smtpuser@</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>mailSMTPPwd</param-name>
<param-value>@smtppwd@</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>mailSMTPDebug</param-name>
<param-value>@smtpdebug@</param-value>
</init-param>
- Set the <param-value> values for your
email server.
- mailSMTPHost: The host name or IP address of
the mail server.
- mailSMTPPort: The port number that is used by
the mail server.
- mailSMTPAuth: Whether to enable SMTP authentication
(true or false).
- mailSMTPUser: The user name to use to access
the mail server.
- mailSMTPPwd: The password to use to access the
mail server.
- mailSMTPDebug: Whether to enable SMTP debug information
for testing (1 for errors and messages or 2 for
messages only).
For example: <init-param>
<param-name>mailSMTPHost</param-name>
<param-value>example.com</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>mailSMTPPort</param-name>
<param-value>25</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>mailSMTPAuth</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>mailSMTPUser</param-name>
<param-value>optim</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>mailSMTPPwd</param-name>
<param-value>password</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>mailSMTPDebug</param-name>
<param-value>1</param-value>
</init-param>
- Use the file compression utility to add the changed version
of the \WEB-INF\web.xml configuration file back
to the unified web application WAR file.
When you install the unified web application WAR file on an
application server, the web application is set to use the email server
that you specify in the WAR file.
Use the manager to enable email notification for work order
changes, and use the connection manager to assign email addresses
to users.