If the alert "License is about to expire" is enabled, then the alert will be triggered whenever the system has detected that the license limit is about to expire.
This alert may be triggered during processing of the task "System health check", and will occur when a license is within the warning period (as specified in the task parameter "licenseWarnDays");
Once the alert is triggered, notification of the detected event may be sent to specified users and groups.
The alert can be found by navigating to "Administration | Alerts", then scrolling down to the alert "License is about to expire";
The alert can be edited by left clicking on the context menu of the alert and selecting "Edit";
A new window will now open titled "Alert - Edit";
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The alert is disabled by default, but can be enabled by ticking the checkbox "Enabled";
When the alert is triggered you have the option to send a message to specified recipients using the "Recipient Users" and "Recipient Groups" parameters.
The "License is about to expire" alert is triggered whenever the system detects that a user license is about to expire, but you might not always want notifications to be sent to your specified users every time this event occurs.
The "Conditions" parameter is to provide a mechanism by which additional restrictions can be checked prior to send the alert notification.
To edit the conditions that determine when the alert is trigged click on the pencil icon () causing a window titled "Condition Builder" to open;
Provided the alert is enabled, the send message is selected, and one or both delivery channels have been enabled, then when a alert is triggered, message notifications will be sent to the selected users (or groups of users)
The default message sent for this alert is as follows;
Hi, administrator, Your DualShield license key is about to expire, please renew it as soon as possible. Original message: |
When the alert is triggered, notifications can be sent to the specified user via email or SMS.
In order to send notifications you will first need to tick the "Send Message" box;
Once messages are enabled you will need to specify which (or both) of the available delivery channels can be used to send the notifications;
After selecting the delivery channel you can the add additional recipients, specify the message priority and subject, and possibly customise the message sent.
The default message sent for this alert is as follows;
The default message includes wildcards ((separated by "[[" and "]]", and additional wildcards may be used from the following llist;
After the alert is triggered you have the additional option to cause one of the existing tasks to be run.
To add task execution to the alert you need to first tick the checkbox prompted "Execute Task", then select what task (or tasks) are to be executed using theicon;