From the System Administration tool, you can configure system wide alert email notification. JobServer is capable of sending email messages to notify administrators and other users when there are problems with the environment or with a specific Job. There are two types of alerts: System alerts and Job alerts.
System alerts should typically be sent to an administrator. They are sent when a problem occurs with the webserver or the JobServer Engine. These same alerts can also be viewed using the JobServer Runtime Log tool or can be found in the web server log.
Job alerts notify users when a Job failure occurs. These are are typically
failures associated with the Job/TaskBean throwing an exception (such as
TaskBeanFailureException)or encountering some
internal processing failure.
Note that errors and warnings logged via the Java Logging API are not emailed.
The email alerts use
a cascading mechanism. It works by first sending an alert to the email
address listed here. It then sends the alert to the email addresses defined for that
Job's Partition, it then sends it to the Job's JobGroup alert addresses, and then it finally
will send it to the alert email addresses defined for the specific Job. With this design you can
setup a hierarchy of email alerts. So, for example, you can set it up so that you only
receive emails when a specific Job fails or when any Job in a Partition fails, ......etc.
This is the name of the mail server to use when sending email alerts. If this is not set then email alerts will not be sent to anyone.
Reply address to use when sending emails.
Where to send alerts when system errors occur (failure in JobServer Engine or Web Server). You may enter up to five email addresses.
This specifies where to send alerts when any Job has a failure, as described above. You may enter up to five email addresses. If the same email address here, is present in the alert notification address for the Job's Partition, Job Group, and/or Job configuration, only one email will be sent per unique email address.