| ---++Falcon Email Notification |
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| Falcon Email notification allows sending email notifications when scheduled feed/process instances complete. |
| Email notification in feed/process entity can be defined as follows: |
| <verbatim> |
| <process name="[process name]"> |
| ... |
| <notification type="email" to="bob@xyz.com,tom@xyz.com"/> |
| ... |
| </process> |
| </verbatim> |
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| * *type* - specifies about the type of notification. *Note:* Currently "email" notification type is supported. |
| * *to* - specifies the address to send notifications to; multiple recipients may be provided as a comma-separated list. |
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| Falcon email notification requires some SMTP server configuration to be defined in startup.properties. Following are the values |
| it looks for: |
| * *falcon.email.smtp.host* - The host where the email action may find the SMTP server (localhost by default). |
| * *falcon.email.smtp.port* - The port to connect to for the SMTP server (25 by default). |
| * *falcon.email.from.address* - The from address to be used for mailing all emails (falcon@localhost by default). |
| * *falcon.email.smtp.auth* - Boolean property that specifies if authentication is to be done or not. (false by default). |
| * *falcon.email.smtp.user* - If authentication is enabled, the username to login as (empty by default). |
| * *falcon.email.smtp.password* - If authentication is enabled, the username's password (empty by default). |
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| Also ensure that email notification plugin is enabled in startup.properties to send email notifications: |
| * *monitoring.plugins* - org.apache.falcon.plugin.EmailNotificationPlugin,org.apache.falcon.plugin.DefaultMonitoringPlugin |
