10.17. Notification profiles

Notification profiles specify the transport used for delivering notifications to recipients. The system supports 2 types of transport:

  • SMTP, message delivery by Email

  • SMPP, message delivery by SMS

To create a new SMTP message profile, click Add in the Notifications--> Notification profiles section, select Add SMTP notification profile and then specify the following fields:

Name

Description

Name

Name of the profile

Description

Description of the profile

Host

IP address of the SMTP server that you are going to use for sending messages

Port

TCP port used by the SMTP server (usually port 25 for SMTP and port 465 for SMTP with SSL). Ask your email server administrator to provide this value

Connection security

The following email security options are supported: None, STARTTLS, SSL

Authentication

Enables authentication for SMTP server

Login

Username of the account used for connecting to the SMTP server

Password

Password of the account used for connecting to the SMTP server

To create a new SMPP message profile, click Add in the Notifications--> Notification profiles section, select Add SMPP notification profile and then specify the following fields:

Name

Description

Name

Name of the profile

Description

Description of the profile

Host

IP address of the SMPP server that you are going to use for sending SMS messages

Port

TCP port used by the SMPP server (usually port 2775 for SMPP and port 3550 for SMPP with SSL).

SSL

Whether to use the SSL encryption

Login

Username of the account used for connecting to the SMPP server

Password

Password of the account used for connecting to the SMPP server

Phone translation rules

Allows to change prefix for phone numbers, i.e. change 11234567890 to +111234567890. This can be required by some SMPP providers