E-Mail Notifications

Configuring SMTP server

PC-lint Plus View allows users to configure automatic sending of e-mail notifications at the end of an analysis. In order to use this feature, PC-lint Plus View server must be configured to communicate with an SMTP server.

Before you start, ensure that the following details are available:

  • The URL and port of your SMTP server

  • The username and password used to authenticate against the SMTP server

  • The e-mail address that you want to see used in the from field of the e-mails.

In order to configure the SMTP server integration:

  1. Edit <PCLPVIEW_HOME>/server/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml, find the mail-session configuration, which by default looks like this:

    <smtp-server outbound-socket-binding-ref="mail-smtp"/>

  2. Complete the element to add in the username and password for the smtp server, and optionally turn on ssl:

    <mail-session name="default" jndi-name="java:jboss/mail/Default">
  <smtp-server outbound-socket-binding-ref="mail-smtp" ssl="false" username="login" password="password"/>
</mail-session>

  3. Find the outbound-socket-binding element with the name attribute mail-smtp and edit the remote-destination sub-element as needed:

    <outbound-socket-binding name="mail-smtp">
    <remote-destination host="localhost" port="25"/>
</outbound-socket-binding>

  4. Start PC-lint Plus View server.

  5. Log in as administrator and go to Administration > System.

  6. Set the value of the FROM e-mail address for notifications, as well as the PC-lint Plus View server URL to be used in body of the e-mails, for example user@domain.com and http://localhost:8280.

Maintenance notifications

PC-lint Plus View also allows notifying all users by e-mail when planned maintenance is necessary.

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Figure 1. The E-mail form to notify all users available to administrators

If you already have configured the SMTP server as explained in Configuring SMTP server, follow these steps to send a maintenance e-mail:

  1. Log in as administrator.

  2. Click Administration > System

  3. Click on Notify users by e-mail.

  4. Type a message subject and content and click Send to e-mail users.

The e-mail notification will be sent to all selected users that have an e-mail address.

PC-lint Plus View will actually limit the amount of recipients to 100 per e-mail, and send more than one e-mail if necessary. If this number of recipients is too high for your SMTP server, you can configure the maximum number of recipients to include in a single e-mail by setting the mail.recipients property with the following command:

<PCLPVIEW_HOME>/bin/sqadm config mail.recipients 100