Subscribing to email alerts

License Statistics users can subscribe to receive email alerts about events that occur for servers and features being monitored using the Email Subscriptions tab from the Preferences page (the Preferences link is located in the upper right corner of the License Statistics page).

The events you can subscribe to include:

• License servers going down.
• Feature utilization exceeding a specified percentage. For example, you can specify that you want to get an email alert if feature F1 utilization is 80% or greater.
• Feature expiration. For example, you can specify that you want to get an email alert 60 days before the license for feature F1 expires.

Note that a License Statistics administrator must first enable email notifications as described in Configuring email in order for users to receive email notifications for events.

Setting the email address for receiving alerts

To set or change the email address at which to receive email alerts, use the General tab from the Preferences page.

Receiving email alerts for license servers that go down

To receive email alerts when a license server goes down:

1. In the License Server Events area of the Email Subscriptions tab, select the License server is down checkbox.
2. Click Save. You will receive an email alert when any monitored license server goes down.

Receiving email alerts for feature utilization

To receive email alerts for features that exceed a specified utilization percentage:

1. In the Feature Utilization Events area of the Email Subscriptions tab, select the license server, then either select the individual features you want to receive email alerts for, or select All to receive email alerts for all features.
2. In the % Utilization box, enter the percentage of utilization that the feature must reach in order for an email alert to be sent. For example, if you enter "80" you will get an email alert whenever utilization rises to 80% or above.
3. Click Add New. You will see the feature(s) listed in the Feature Subscriptions table.
4. Repeat the above steps for all features you want to receive utilization alerts for.

Receiving email alerts for feature expiration

To receive email alerts when a feature is nearing its expiration date:

1. In the Feature Expiration Events area of the Email Subscriptions tab, select the license server, then either select the individual features you want to receive expiration alerts for, or select All to receive expiration alerts for all features.
2. In the Days to Expiration field, enter the number of days prior to expiration you want to receive an alert. For example, to receive an email one month prior to the feature's expiration, enter 30 for the Days to Expiration.
3. Click Add New. You will see the feature(s) listed in the Feature Subscriptions table.
4. Repeat the above steps for all features you want to receive expiration alerts for.