On Settings, choose Email Settings to configure the following properties, as shown in Figure 8‑12.
Email Server Type
Type a name for the mail server. For example, type mail.smtp.host.
Email Server
Type the IP address or fully qualified domain name of the mail server. For example, type mailserver.companydomain.com.
Email Address
Type the e-mail address that appears in the From line of the e-mail notification. For example, type support@companydomain.com. BIRT iHub also sends a notification to this address when the mail server cannot deliver an e-mail notification to a user.
Figure 8‑12 Configuring an e-mail server
The system administrator can change monitoring to not send out alerts. If the system administrator chooses to have alerts, but does not set up an e-mail server configuration, BIRT iHub continuously generates errors saying that an e-mail server configuration cannot be found. This message is classified as a severe error. To remedy this problem, edit the lmserviceconfig.properties file, and change the following setting from:
After changing this setting to false, BIRT iHub still logs errors, but does not send e-mail alerts to the system administrator.
In a default BIRT iHub installation on Windows, performed using the graphical installer, in which the install folder is C:\Actuate3, lmserviceconfig.properties is in the following location:
Email Server Type