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Understanding Notification Manager Terminology

The basic purpose of Notification Manager is to find and contact someone using specified methods, tell them something, and optionally ask them something. It uses the following terminology:

Login

Identifies you to Notification Manager. It determines that you are who you claim to be before you can carry out any tasks.

Contact

Specifies a person or group you notify.

Method

Specifies a means by which you can notify a particular contact. Some people have numeric pagers, some alphanumeric pagers, and some no pager at all. Notification Manager lets you use different methods of notification depending on the person you are contacting and on the current time and day.

Notification Schedule

Defines time blocks that describe how to reach a contact during a particular block of time. For example, when a person is scheduled to be in the office you may want to send them a voice message, but when they are on the road, you may want to use a pager to contact them.

Parameter

Establishes and defines actions for a specified method. For example, when you use a pager, the phone number of the pager service, the pager number, and the maximum length this pager service allows for messages are all parameters.