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About Notification

You can set notification at the object level. You can select unique notification options for each object, sending different types of notification for different conditions. For object packages, you can set only event notification, which will trigger an event based on success or failure of the object package. To monitor object successes and failures from a more general perspective, use the auditing functionality within BusinessObjects Enterprise.

If notification fails, then the object instance fails. For example, if an email notification sends a message to an invalid email address, then the notification fails and the object instance is recorded as a failure in the object's history.

You can choose to notify using:

Audit notification

To use audit notification, you must configure the auditing database and enable auditing for the servers. If you use auditing to monitor your BusinessObjects Enterprise system, you can use audit notification. For more information about configuring the auditing database and enabling auditing, see the BusinessObjects Enterprise Administrator’s Guide.

When you select audit notification, information about the scheduled object is written to the auditing database. You can choose to have a notification sent to the auditing database when the job runs successfully, when it fails to run, or both.

Email notification

You can send an email as a notification of an object instance's success or failure. You can choose the sender and recipients of the email message. You can send an email when the instance fails and when it succeeds. For example, you could send your administrator an email if the report fails, but when the report succeeds you can automatically send a notification to everyone who needs the report to let them know it is now available.

Notes:

• To enable email notification, you must have the Email SMTP destination enabled and configured on the job servers.
• Notification of a scheduled object's success or failure is not the same as alert notification. Alert notification must be built into the design of the report. For example, alert notification can send an email to you whenever a specific value in the report exceeds $1,000,000. In this case, the notification has nothing to do with the contents of the report — it is just about whether or not the report object instance has failed or succeeded.