All Pro Zeus User Notifications!

January 13th, 2012

What if you run a critical job overnight that is time sensitive and something happens that causes the machine to stop? Rest assured that you will be notified immediately via either NetSend or regular email so you can take care of the problem in a timely manner. With almost all mobile phones now using email accounts, you can now get a quick message direct to your phone. Wasted time is averted and production is back up and running.

Within the Zeus Series Publishers, you can notify users, computers or e-mail addresses via either NetSend messenger service or SMTP outgoing email.

Notifications will be sent if one or more of the following occurs:

• All jobs in the list have been completed without error.
  
• All jobs in the list have been completed, but an error occurred.
  
• Every job has been completed without an error.
  
• Every job has been completed with an error.
  
• The system requires an operator action.
  
• A device has been disabled because of a hardware problem.
  

NetSend

This function utilizes the Windows “net send” command which allows sending messages to computers or users within an LAN. To use this function, the Messenger Service must be running on both the local and the remote computer.

SMTP

This protocol allows sending messages to internet e-mail addresses. To use SMTP, an SMTP host and a sender address must be specified. The SMTP host should be configured to accept SMTP connections from the computer running the PPNG Server. Also, it must not require SMTP-after-POP authentication. The sender address will be added to the generated e-mail, so that the recipient knows where the e-mail originates. It is not necessary to create a special email account for PPNG Server as you can also use your own e-mail.

This post was written by John Marello http://www.octave.com

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