Chapter 2. Setting notifications and email preferences
By configuring notifications and user preferences settings in the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console, Red Hat Insights will notify you of policy changes to your Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.
2.1. Enabling notifications and integrations for the policies service
You can enable the notifications service on the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console to send notifications whenever the policy service detects an issue and generates an alert. Using the notifications service frees you from having to continually check the Red Hat Insights Dashboard for alerts.
For example, you can configure the notifications service to automatically send an email message whenever the policies service detects that a server’s security software is out of date, or to send an email digest of all the alerts that the policies service generates each day.
In addition to sending email messages, you can configure the notifications service to send polcies event data in other ways:
- Using an authenticated client to query Red Hat Insights APIs for event data
- Using webhooks to send events to third-party applications that accept inbound requests
- Integrating notifications with applications such as Splunk to route policies events to the application dashboard
Enabling the notifications service requires three main steps:
- First, an Organization Administrator creates a User access group with the Notifications administrator role, and then adds account members to the group.
- Next, a Notifications administrator sets up behavior groups for events in the notifications service. Behavior groups specify the delivery method for each notification. For example, a behavior group can specify whether email notifications are sent to all users, or just to Organization administrators.
- Finally, users who receive email notifications from events must set their user preferences so that they receive individual emails for each event.
Additional resources
- For more information about configuring Hybrid Cloud Console notifications to learn of identified events that have occurred and could impact your organization, see Configuring notifications on the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console with FedRAMP.
- For more information about configuring Hybrid Cloud Console notifications to integrate with third-party applications, see Integrating the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console with third-party applications.
2.2. Setting user preferences
To receive email notifications, you can set or update your email preferences using the following procedure.
Procedure
- Navigate to Operations > Policies.
- Click Open user preferences. The My Notifications page appears.
- Select Red Hat Enterprise Linux > Policies from the left menu.
- Check the appropriate boxes to define your policies notification preferences.
Depending on your email notification preferences, you can subscribe to Instant notification emails for each system with triggered policies or a Daily digest summarizing triggered application events in a 24-hour time frame. To unsubscribe from all notifications, select Unsubscribe from all.
NoteSubscribing to instant notifications can result in receiving many emails on large inventories. To reduce the volume of emails, consider selecting the Daily digest option.
- Click Submit.
