Email Notification when a Scheduled Task Fails

You can configure People Planner to send an email when a scheduled task fails.

To perform the setup to send an email when a scheduled task fails:

1. Go to Settings > System Settings > Notification > Notification Settings.
2. Enter information in the fields.
   For more information about each field, see System Setup » Notification.
3. Click Save.
4. Restart the People Planner service to force it to read the changed settings.

This provides People Planner with the settings for sending emails. You must also configure each scheduled task. You do this by selecting an option for the Email Results field as shown in the following table.

Option	Description
Never	No email is sent. This is the default.
On failure	People Planner sends an email if the scheduled task fails.
Always	People Planner sends an email whenever the scheduled task runs.

Note: It can be problematic to set up the system to send an email every time a scheduled task runs. The risk is that you will overlook it the one time that it fails and you need do something about it. This argues against setting it to Always for all of the scheduled tasks. On the other hand, there should always be at least one scheduled task that always sends an email, to ensure that the system can actually send emails when it needs to.

If you choose to receive an email every time the scheduled task runs, the email provides a summary of the run, and the relevant part of the log is attached.