Configuring Notification Parser

You can configure Notification Parsing so that Incidents can be automatically logged from the e-mails/ Whatsapp messages received from a configured Mailbox (see: Configuring Mailbox). This is more suitable where one or more system Alert e-mails keep flowing into the mailbox regarding the server status or storage device status, and so on. For more information about E-mail Parsing, see E-mail Parsing.

To configure Notification Parser:

  1. Select Admin > Advanced > Notifications > Notification Parser.
  2. On the NOTIFICATION PARSER page, click ADD NEW on the ACTIONS panel. The following page is displayed.

 

Figure: NOTIFICATION PARSER page

 

  1. Select the Tenant and fill in the required details. For more information about fields on the NOTIFICATION PARSER page, see Field Description.
  1. Fill in the other required details under CREATE, UPDATE, and APPROVE tabs (see: Field Description).
  2. Click SUBMIT. A new Notification Parser is configured.

Field Description

The following table describes the fields on the NOTIFICATION PARSER page:

Field Description
DETAILS  
Parser Type

Select the Notification Parser type: Email, WhatsApp

Rule Name

Type in a unique rule name. You can specify multiple rule names for a Tenant. The newly configured rule name gets appended to the Copy Existing list.

Note: A rule name can contain alphanumeric characters.

Copy Existing Rule

Lists the configured rule names for a Tenant. If you wish to use the existing rule, select the rule name from the list. A confirmation message is displayed: "Do you want to use the selected rule details to create new rule?" Click OK. The selected rule name is displayed as Copy of <Rule Name> value in the Rule Name field. This can be renamed.

Create User

If selected, a user is created whenever the User ID is not available in the User list for the configured e-mail ID. For example, if you specify the e-mail ID as ‘xyz@anzcorporation.com’, and if the ‘xyz’ user is not present, the application creates the user as xyz. By default, the access is given for IM module for the newly created User ID.

Time Zone

Select the time zone to which the new users have to be assigned. This field is displayed only when the Create User check box is active.

Assign Role Template(s)

Select the Role Template to which the new users have to be assigned. This field is displayed only when the Create User check box is active.

Send Notification

If selected, an e-mail notification with login credentials is sent to the newly created user. This check box is displayed only when the Create User check box is active.

Minimum/Maximum Attachment Size (KB)

Specify the minimum and maximum size of the attachment in kb.

Allow Domains

Specify the domain names for which the issue-related-e-mails are generated as an Incident.

Restricted E-mail IDs Specify the restricted e-mail ids for which the Incidents are not generated.
Action for Resolved Incident If the e-mail is received for a resolved Incident, select an action from the list.
Action for Processed E-Mails Select an action from the drop-down list that you want to perform on the processed e-mails. You can either delete the processed e-mails or move them to specific folder. If you select Move to Folder from the drop-down list, you can type the folder name in the text box that is available with the Action for Processed E-Mails drop-down box.
Enable CI Correlation

If selected, the CI Correlation configuration becomes active.

Active

If selected, the Notification Parser configuration becomes active.

CONFIGURE PARSING KEYS

Parsing Type

Lists the configured e-mail types:

Line Delimiter

Lists the configured line delimiter. Select the line delimiter from the list. By default, New Line option is selected. If you select Others, type in the character that has to be considered as a line delimiter in the text.

Key Delimiter

Lists the configured key delimiter. Select the key delimiter from the list. By default, Colon option is selected. If you select Others, type in the character that has to be considered as a key delimiter in the text box.

Body Line #

Type in the line number that contains the key.

  • If you configure the body line number and specify the Key name, then for that particular line, the text in that line becomes the value for the corresponding Key during the e-mail parsing.
  • If you do not specify the body line number and only type in Key name, then the application searches for the specified Key in the e-mail body content. Once the Key is found, then the text next to the first Key delimiter becomes the Value for that Key.

User-Defined Key

Specify an e-mail template name for the key value. By default, you can view Subject and Body as system defined templates. As per the needs of e-mail parsing, you can add more templates to the list.

Delete icon

Click the Delete icon to delete the templates Keys.

icon

Click the icon to  add a new templates.

CONFIGURING PARSING CONDITIONS

CREATE Tab

UPDATE Tab

APPROVE Tab

 

ACTIONS

This section explains all the icons displayed on the ACTIONS panel of the MAIL PARSER page.

 

SHOW LIST

Click SHOW LIST to display the LIST table showing all the configured Notification Parser details for the selected Tenant.

 

Figure:  NOTIFICATION PARSER page: List of Notification Parsers

 

Note: When the Notification Parser details are displayed under the LIST table, the ADD NEW action is displayed on the ACTIONS panel. Click ADD NEW to configure a new Notification Parser.

MAIL FORMAT

Click MAIL FORMAT to view the sample e-mail content. The user-defined keys and user-defined key values are displayed as Keys Availability and Preview, respectively, under the Sample e-mail Content. If the defined user-defined key is not available, the key is marked in red color.

See Screen Shot

 

MAILBOX

If you click MAILBOX, you are redirected to MAILBOX configuration page. For more information about the MAILBOX page, see Configuring Mailbox.