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Chapter 2. Setting notifications and email preferences

By configuring notifications and user preferences settings in the Red Hat Hybrid Cloud Console, Red Hat Lightspeed will notify you of policy changes to your Red Hat Enterprise Linux systems.

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 Lightspeed 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to automatically send an email message whenever the policies service detects that a server’s security software is out of date, or to send an email digest of all the alerts that the policies service generates each day.

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.

2.2. Setting user preferences
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To receive email notifications, you can set or update your email preferences using the following procedure.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to Operations > Policies.
  2. Click Open user preferences. The My Notifications page appears.
  3. Select Red Hat Enterprise Linux > Policies from the left menu.
  4. Check the appropriate boxes to define your policies notification preferences.

  5. 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.

    Note

    Subscribing to instant notifications can result in receiving many emails on large inventories. To reduce the volume of emails, consider selecting the Daily digest option.

  6. Click Submit.
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