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Enabling Email Notifications

You can enable email notifications in feed entities and process entities. When email notifications are enabled, an email is sent to the specified email address when the scheduled feed or process instance completes. Email notifications can be specified in feed or process entities as follows:

<process name="<process_name>
     ...
     <notification type="email" to="jdoe@example.com, sjones@company.com"/>
     ...
</process>

Where type specifies the type of notification. Currently, only the email notification type is supported. The to attribute specifies where the notification is to be sent. In the case of email notifications, specify the email address where you want notifications sent for the to attribute. Multiple recipients can be specified as a comma-separated list of email addresses as shown in the previous example. The <notification> tag must be placed before the <ACL> tag.

Falcon email notifications require SMTP server configurations to be defined in the Falcon startup.properties file that is located in the FALCON_HOME/conf directory. Configure the following startup properties for email notifications:

Table 2.6. Email Notifications Startup Properties

Property

Description

Default Values

falcon.email.smtp.host

Name of the host where the SMTP server can be found.

localhost

falcon.email.smtp.port

The SMTP server host port to connect to.

25

falcon.email.from.address

The "From:" address used for all notification emails.

falcon@localhost

falcon.email.smtp.auth

Indicates whether user sending the email is authenticated. Boolean value (true | false)

false

falcon.email.smtp.user

If authentication is enabled, this property specifies the username that is used to log in.

none

falcon.email.smtp.password

If authentication is enabled, the username's password that is used to authenticate the user.

none

monitoring.plugins

Ensure that the email notification plugin is listed for this property to enable email notifications.

For example:

org.apache.falcon.plugin.EmailNotificationPlugin, org.apache.falcon.plugin.DefaultMonitoringPlugin

none