I would recommend disabling all server messages - it's annoying when EVERYBODY in your company gets one and it makes the problem EXTREMELY visible - something you don't want or need. Pretty soon (if this happens a lot), you'll start to hear stuff like "Why does Novell have to send out all these notifications / Windows doesn't have that problem" and other useless rhetoric.
Instead, setup Notifications for critical items such as Abends, Low Disk space, etc.
To turn off broadcasts, do this: Set Disable Broadcast Notifications Process=on (This will still allow you to send out messages if you want or need to)
To turn on Notifications, go into the portal (
DIAGNOSE SERVER / HEALTH MONITOR. In there you see a list of things you can notify on. The useful ones are "ABENDED THREAD COUNT" and "LOW DISK SPACE" and "AVAILABLE MEMORY".. Put a tick in the Notify column for each item you want to be notified of. Be careful on some because they could cause a lot of notifications for trivial items.
At the top of the Notification items you'll see a "Mail Notification Configuration" link. Go in there and put in your mail server and the addresses you want notifications to go to. This could be your Cell Phone, Email address, whatever.. You don't need GroupWise running on the server - the Portal has a built in mini-SMTP server that sends the messages out via SMTP protocol to whatever IP address you define for your mail server. You may have to configure your mail server seperately to accept relays from your NetWare server depending on your configuration.
Marvin Huffaker, MCNE
