IBM Security Identity Governance and Intelligence, Version 5.2.4

Activating the EmailService task in Task Planner

The EmailService task runs the jobs that send email and SMS notifications as defined within work flows. This task must be active if you want all notifications to be sent automatically by Identity Governance and Intelligence.

About this task

This task must be active also if you want to test your templates in Access Governance Core > Configure > Notifications > Notification Settings.

The following procedure shows where to go to verify that the task is active and how to activate it if it is not.

Procedure

  1. Select Task Planner in the Administration Console.
  2. Select Manage > Tasks.
  3. Scroll the list of tasks until you find EmailService. If the task is active, Green check mark means that the task is active, no further steps are necessary and you can exit Task Planner. If the task is not active, Red x mark means that the task is not active, you must take these steps to activate it.
    1. Select Settings > Scheduler in Task Planner.
    2. Select Singleton from the list of schedulers and click Actions > Synchronize.
    3. Return to Manage > Tasks and check that EmailService is active. If the task still shows not active, select it and click Actions > Start.

Results

The EmailService task is active and the jobs that send emails and SMS messages from Identity Governance and Intelligence are ready to run.