Introduction
When you submit a virtual machine deployment request, change request, snapshot request or any other request, the backing API would send an email notification upon submission and completion. However, if you wish to opt-out to receiving notifications or pick and choose which kind of notifications you wish to receive, you can do that by using either the
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API, the VSS Command Line Interface, or The
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Cloud Portal.
This how-to provides the steps to customize your account Object Notifications and choose a preferred notification format using the VSS Portal and CLI.
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Enable/Disable notification
VSS Portal
Login to the https://vss-portal.eis.utoronto.ca
Go to the top-right corner where your Gravatar image is shown.
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Click on Settings
Check the desired notification settings: all, none or submission, error, completion.
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Click on Save.
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Command-
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Line Interface
Usinghttps://vss-cli.eis.utoronto.ca or a local VSS CLI install
Display your existing notification preferences with
vss-cli account get notification request
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vss-cli account get notification request ALL : True NONE : False COMPLETION : False ERROR : False SUBMISSION : False
To disable all email notification, execute
vss-cli account set notification request none
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vss-cli account set notification request none Notifications triggered by requests have been disabled. ALL : False NONE : True COMPLETION : False ERROR : False SUBMISSION : False
If you are interested in only receiving email notifications when an error happened, execute
vss-cli account set notification request error
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vss-cli account set notification request error Notifications triggered by request error have been enabled. ALL : False NONE : False COMPLETION : False ERROR : True SUBMISSION : False
To enable multiple notifications, please include the options as follows:
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vss account set notification request error completion Notifications triggered by request error have been enabled. ALL : False NONE : False COMPLETION : True ERROR : True SUBMISSION : False
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For more information about user notifications, please refer to User Notification Settings |
Notification format
VSS Portal
Login to the https://vss-portal.eis.utoronto.ca
Go to the top-right corner where your Gravatar image is shown.
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Click on Settings
Check the desired notification format: html or text
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Click on Save.
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Command-
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Line Interface
Usinghttps://vss-cli.eis.utoronto.ca or a local VSS CLI install
Display your existing notification format with
vss-cli account get notification format
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vss-cli account get notification format ALL : html
We are currently supporting two formats:
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ortext
. If you are more comfortable receiving text rather than html, please run the following command:Code Block
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vss-cli account set notification format text ALL : text
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From now on, all incoming notifications will be using text format instead of HTML. |
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