Notification Manager

• 1: Overview
• 2: How-to Guides
• 2.1: Notification Policy
• 3: Release Note

1 - Overview

Service Overview

The Notification Manager is a management service that provides notifications to users when alerts occur, according to the criteria set in the notification policy for each account.

Provided features

The Notification Manager provides the following features.

• Alert Group Management: You can create and manage alert groups. You can add or remove users from an alert group.
• Notification Policy Management: You can configure a notification policy to receive specific alerts generated within an Account. When creating a notification policy, if you associate a notification group, users in that group can receive the notifications set in the policy.

Component

Notification Manager provides notification groups and notification policies.

Notification Group

You can create and manage notification groups, and add or remove users from a notification group. The main features are as follows.

• Alert Group Creation: You can create an alert group and add users.
• Alert Group > Add User: You can add users to a created alert group.
• For instructions on creating and using notification groups, see How-to guides > Notification Groups.

Notification Policy

You can create and manage alert policies, and you can disable or re‑enable an alert policy. The main features are as follows.

• Alert Policy Creation: You can create an alert policy and attach an alert group.
• Disable Notification Policy: You can disable the notification policy you are using.
• Use Notification Policy: You can re-enable a notification policy that has been disabled.
• Refer to How-to guides > Notification Policy for how to create and use notification policies.

Preceding Service

Notification Manager has no prerequisite service.

2 - How-to Guides

Users can enter the required information for an alert group and select detailed options to create it through the Samsung Cloud Platform Console.

Create Notification Group

You can create and use an alert group in the Samsung Cloud Platform Console.

1. All Services > Management > Notification Manager Click the menu. 1. Go to the Notification Group List page of Notification Manager.

2. On the Notification Group List page, click the Create Notification Group button. 2. Go to the Create Notification Group page.

3. On the Create Notification Group page, enter the information required to create a service and select detailed options.

   • Enter the required information in the Basic Information area.

     Category	Required status	Detailed description
     Notification group name	Required	Alert group name Korean, English, numbers, special characters(+=,.@-_) using , enter within 3 to 24 characters
     Explanation	Selection	Enter description for the notification group Maximum length is 1,000 characters

     Table. Notification group basic information items
   • In the Add User area, select the user to add to the notification group.

     Category	Required status	Detailed description
     Add user	Selection	User added to the notification group Search for the desired user, then select that user to add Users in the notification group can be removed using the Delete button If the user you want to add does not exist, you need to create the user on the User Creation page IAM > 사용자 생성하기 see
     External recipient	Selection	Enter the email address to receive notifications directly When entering multiple email addresses, separate each email with a comma (,) Up to 500 entries can be entered

     Table. Add notification group user item
     Caution

     • Only users with a login history (users who have registered an email or mobile phone number) can be added to the notification group.
     • For IAM users, those without any login history after account creation cannot receive notifications. * Therefore, the user cannot be added to the notification group.

4. Click the Generate button when all inputs are finished.

5. When the popup notifying creation opens, click the Confirm button.

Check detailed information of the notification group

Notification groups can view and edit the full list and detailed information.

To view detailed information for the notification group, follow these steps.

1. All Services > Management > Notification Manager Click the menu. 1. Go to the Notification Group List page of Notification Manager.
2. On the Notification Group List page, click the notification group you want to view details for. 2. Navigate to the Notification Group Details page.
   • Notification Group Details page provides detailed information about the notification group and edit and delete functions.

     Category	Detailed description
     Service	Service Name
     Resource Type	Resource Type
     SRN	Unique resource ID in Samsung Cloud Platform In Notification Manager, it refers to the Notification Manager SRN
     Resource name	Resource name In the Notification Manager service, it refers to the Notification Manager name
     Resource ID	Unique resource ID in the service
     Constructor	User who created the service
     Creation Date/Time	Service creation date and time
     Modifier	User who edited the service information
     Modification date	Date and time the service information was modified
     Notification group name	Notification group name
     Explanation	Description of the notification group
     User	List of users added to the notification group
     External recipient	List of emails directly registered as external recipients

     Table. Notification Group Detailed Items

Add user to notification group

You can add users to the notification group.

To add a user to the notification group, follow these steps.

1. All Services > Management > Notification Manager menu, click it. 1. Go to the Notification Group List page of Notification Manager.
2. On the Notification Group List page, click the Add button next to the user of the notification group where you want to add a user. 2. Navigate to the Add User page.
3. On the Add User page, select the user to add to the notification group, then click the Complete button.
   • Only users with a login history (users who have registered an email or mobile phone number) can be added to the notification group.
   • If there is no user to add, create the user on the user creation page. * IAM > Create User Please refer to it.
4. When the popup indicating a user addition opens, click the Confirm button.
5. On the Notification Group List page, click the Expand button at the far right of the relevant notification group to view the added users.

Edit Notification Group

You can modify the items set in the generated notification group.

To modify the notification group, follow these steps.

1. All Services > Management > Notification Manager Click the menu. 1. Go to the Notification Group List page of Notification Manager.
2. On the Notification Group List page, click the notification group you want to edit. 2. Navigate to the Notification Group Details page.
3. On the Notification Group Details page, click the Edit button. 3. Go to the Alert Group Edit page.
4. After editing the desired information on the Edit Notification Group page, click the Save button.

   Category	required status	Detailed description
   Notification group name	Essential	Enter the alert group name using Korean, English, numbers, and special characters (+=,.@-_) within 3 to 24 characters
   Explanation	Selection	Enter description for the notification group Maximum length is 1,000 characters
   User	Selection	User added to the notification group Search for the desired user, then select that user to add Users in the notification group can be removed using the Delete button If the user you want to add does not exist, you need to create the user on the User Creation page IAM > 사용자 생성하기 see
   External recipient	Selection	Enter the email address to receive notifications directly When entering multiple email addresses, separate each email with a comma (,) Up to 500 can be entered

   Table. Notification group edit items

   Caution

   • Only users with a login history (users who have registered an email or mobile phone number) can be added to the notification group.
   • For IAM users, those without any login history after account creation cannot receive notifications. * Therefore, the user cannot be added to the notification group.

Delete notification group

If you no longer use the created notification group, you can delete it.

1. All Services > Management > Notification Manager menu, click it. 1. Go to the Notification Group List page of Notification Manager.
2. Notification Group List page, click the notification group you want to delete. 2. Navigate to the Notification Group Details page.
3. On the Alert Group Details page, click the Delete button. 3. A popup notifying the deletion opens.
4. Notification After reviewing the popup message, click the Confirm button.
5. When deletion is complete, verify on the Alert Group List page that the alert group has been deleted.

2.1 - Notification Policy

Users can enter the required information for an alert policy and select detailed options to create it through the Samsung Cloud Platform Console.

Create Alert Policy

You can create and use notification policies in the Samsung Cloud Platform Console.

1. Click the All Services > Management > Notification Manager menu. Navigate to the Alert Group page of Notification Manager.
2. On the Alert Group page, click the Alert Policy menu. You will be taken to the Alert Policy List page.
3. On the Alert Policy List page, click the Create Alert Policy button. You will be taken to the Create Alert Policy page.
4. On the Create Notification Policy page, enter the information required to create a service and select detailed options.

   Category	Whether required	Detailed description
   Whether to use	Required	Alert policy usage ON: enabled OFF: disabled
   Notification Policy Name	Required	Alert policy name Enter within 30 characters
   description	Selection	Enter description for notification policy Enter within 1,000 characters
   Notification item	Required	Select notification items Select notification items that can be received To select or deselect a specific notification name among the chosen notification items, click the Expand button at the far right to select or deselect the notification name (Example) If you want to receive only notifications about Virtual Server creation failures, select Notification Item: Virtual Server > Notification Name: Virtual Server creation failure.
   Notification target group	Required	Select the notification group to deliver the alert When you select a notification group, the group name is displayed at the top Select or deselect the notification group name

   Table. Notification policy creation items

5. After setting the required information, click the Done button.
   • Once creation is complete, check the created alert policy on the Alert Policy List page.

View detailed notification policy information

Notification policies can be viewed and edited, including the full list and detailed information.

To view detailed information for the alert policy, follow these steps.

1. Click the All Services > Management > Notification Manager menu. Navigate to the Alert Group List page of Notification Manager.
2. On the Alert Group List page, click the Alert Policy menu. You will be taken to the Alert Policy List page.
3. On the Alert Policy List page, click the alert policy whose details you want to view. You will be taken to the Alert Policy Details page.
   • Alert Policy Details page displays status information and additional feature information.

     Category	Detailed description
     Notification policy status	Whether to use the notification policy
     Edit	Edit Notification Policy
     Delete	Delete notification policy

     Table. Notification policy status information and additional features
   • Notification Policy Details page displays the following detailed items.

     Category	Detailed description
     Notification Policy Name	Alert policy name
     description	Explanation of the alert policy
     constructor	User who created the alert policy
     Creation date and time	Alert policy creation time
     Editor	User who modified the notification policy
     Modification date	Date and time the notification policy was modified
     Notification item	Notification items configured in the notification policy
     Notification target group	Notification group linked in the alert policy

     Table. Notification Policy Detailed Items

Modify Notification Policy

You can edit the items configured in the generated alert policy.

To modify the alert policy, follow these steps.

1. Click the All Services > Management > Notification Manager menu. Go to the Alert Group List page of Notification Manager.
2. On the Alert Group List page, click the Alert Policy menu. You will be taken to the Alert Policy List page.
3. On the Alert Policy List page, click the Edit button. You will be taken to the Edit Alert Policy page.
4. Alert Policy Edit page allows you to edit the alert policy items.

   Category	Required status	Detailed description
   Whether to use	Required	Alert policy usage ON: enabled OFF: disabled
   Notification Policy Name	Required	Alert policy name Enter within 30 characters
   description	Select	Enter description for notification policy Enter within 1,000 characters
   Notification item	Required	Select notification items Select the notification items you can receive To select or deselect a specific notification name among the chosen notification items, click the Expand button at the far right to select or deselect the notification name (Example) If you want to receive only the notification for Virtual Server creation failure, Notification Item: Virtual Server > Notification Name: Virtual Server creation failure
   Notification target group	Required	Select the notification group to deliver the alert When you select a notification group, the group name is displayed at the top Select or deselect the notification group name

   Table. Notification policy edit items

5. If the notification policy edit is complete, click the Save button.

Using Notification Policy

You can reuse a notification policy that is currently disabled.

To enable the alert policy, follow these steps.

1. Click the All Services > Management > Notification Manager menu. Go to the Alert Group List page in Notification Manager.
2. On the Alert Group List page, click the Alert Policy menu. You will be taken to the Alert Policy List page.
3. Notification Policy List page, click the More button at the far right of the notification policy you want to set to active, then click the Use button. Verify the text in the Notification popup window and click the Confirm button.
4. Check the status of notification policies on the Notification Policy List page.

Disable Notification Policy

You can change a notification policy that is currently disabled to “unused.”

To configure the alert policy as disabled, follow these steps.

1. Click the All Services > Management > Notification Manager menu. Navigate to the Notification Group List page in Notification Manager.
2. On the Alert Group List page, click the Alert Policy menu. You will be taken to the Alert Policy List page.
3. Notification Policy List page, click the More button at the far right of the notification policy you want to set to active, then click the Unused button. Verify the text in the Notification popup window and click the Confirm button.
4. On the Notification Policy List page, check the status of notification policies.

3 - Release Note

Notification Manager