Creating Outputs

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  1. What Are Outputs?
  2. What Output Types are Available?
  3. Creating Outputs

What Are Outputs?

Outputs are the types of devices (email, telephone, display screen) you want to use for sending notifications. You create an output for each of these methods. When you create an output you choose the technology that the device uses.

What Output Types are Available?

Inspect supports the following technologies:

ATS Bus

MQ Services Device

MSMQ Device

SMTP E-mail

Socket Device

SMS (Twilio)

Voice Message (Twilio)

WhatsApp (Twilio)

Creating Outputs

Select the Services tab.

Click Outputs in the Event Service section of the tab.

Click the Add button ().

The Event Output Wizard opens.

Click Next.

Select an output type.

Click Next.

Enter a description for the output.

Ensure that the Active checkbox is enabled.

Click Next.

The next screen to be shown will depend upon the output type that has been selected.

Fill in the required details as described below.

ATS Bus

Server Name

Host name or IP address for the ATS Bus ADOS Service server.

 

Port Number

Port number to connect to.  The standard ADOS bus stop port is 8600.

MQ Services Device

Heartbeat Interval

Interval at which heartbeat is sent to keep channel alive.

MSMQ Device

Description

Description to identify output. Actual MSMQ path will be configured on recipient level.

SMTP Email

Server Name

Hostname or IP Address for the SMTP server

 

Port Number

Port number to connect to.

  From Who will it appear the email is from?
  Authentication Use authentication method.
  Logging Enable logging and specify log file location.

Socket Device

Idle Timeout

Number of minutes of inactivity before the connection times out.

 

Queue Limit

Maximum number of events that can be held in the queue.

SMS (Twilio)

Description

Description to identify output.

 

Endpoint

Event Service endpoint.

Voice Message (Twilio)

Description

Description to identify output.

 

Endpoint

Event Service endpoint.

WhatsApp (Twilio)

Description

Description to identify output.

 

Endpoint

Event Service endpoint.

Null Output (for Testing)

Description

Description to identify output.

Click Next.

Click Finish.

The output is created.

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