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REXX Programs

This section covers the REXX programs that Notification Manager uses to implement different tasks involved in the maintenance and administration of Notification Manager. Among these, NMFIND is of special interest, as it is the REXX program that you will invoke from your automation when you want Notification Manager to notify someone for you. The programs follow:

• The NMFIND REXX program is used by anyone that wants to use Notification Manager to notify someone. Most likely, those people are the ones that write automation at your site. However, it could also be a manager who wants to locate an employee quickly.
• The NMANSWER REXX program provides Notification Manager's call-in feature. At installation time, this feature is installed on a single client machine of each notification server that has an NMANSWER group defined. It spawns itself on that computer until there is one NMANSWER running for each phone line in the NMANSWER notification server group.
• A Notification Manager method is a REXX program invoked by Notification Manager using parameters and settings defined in the Notification Manager database. The invocation program is any REXX program that follows Notification Manager's architectural parameter requirements. For your convenience, CA Automation Point provides invocation programs that are architecturally compatible with Notification Manager along with sample Notification Manager method definition data. The sample method data predefines parameters and their default settings. You customize these method parameter settings with site-specific values. These REXX programs issue page, email, and voice notifications through the use of the ADDRESS VOX command environment whenever the notification server is enabled. You can extend or modify these REXX programs to create a Notification Manager method to meet the requirements of your site.