Requests¶

Every time a user creates or modifies a request, the request managers in charge of resolving it are notified within the Data Catalog. If required, they can be notified by email too. From the Requests dialog you can configure the details of these email notifications.

The first time you access the Requests dialog you need to specify the parameters of the email server of your organization in the Email server pill:

• Host. The hostname or IP address of the machine where the email server is running.

• Port. The port where your email server is listening on.

• Authentication. Enable this option in case your email server requires authentication and enter the credentials used for the connection in the Username and Password fields.

• From email address. The email address from which Data Catalog will send email notifications.

• Protocol. Select the protocol used by your email server between:

  • SMTP. The usual protocol for sending emails. Enable the Use STARTTLS command option to switch the connection to a TLS-protected connection before issuing any login commands. If the server does not support STARTTLS, the connection continues without the use of TLS. Note that an appropriate trust store must be configured so that the Data Catalog will trust the server’s certificate.

  • SMTPS. The secured version of the SMTP protocol. To configure how Data Catalog will check the server’s certificate you have the following options:

    • Enable the All servers are trusted option to trust by default any server’s certificate.

    • Specify a list of hostnames in the Trusted servers field to only accept the certificate of a server in the list.

    • Leave the Trusted servers field blank and Data Catalog will rely on its configured trust store to validate the server’s certificate.

• Debug. In case you run into any issues with the email notifications, you should activate the debug mode to identify its cause. Proceed as follows and you will get more information about the whole process in the log file <DENODO_HOME>/logs/vdp-data-catalog/vdp-data-catalog.log:

  1. Select the Debug option.

  2. Add the following logger to the file <DENODO_HOME>/resources/apache-tomcat/webapps/denodo-data-catalog/WEB-INF/classes/log4j2.xml:

     <Logger name="com.denodo.webapp.datacatalog.business.common.email" level="DEBUG" />
     

  3. Restart Data Catalog.

Dialog to configure the email server¶

Once the email server is properly configured, the other pills in the dialog will be enabled. There is one pill for each request type, so you can define the list of email addresses that will receive a notification every time a request of a particular type is created or modified. To configure the email notifications for a request type follow the steps below:

1. Go to the pill of the request type you want to configure.

2. Enable the Send notification by email option.

3. Enter the list of email addresses in the To email address field. Notice that you can add or remove an email address using the or buttons.

Dialog to configure the email notifications for a particular request type¶