8 Emails and Notifications

This chapter provides the list of notifications sent by POM to alert users about important events that occur during the batch lifecycle.

Notifications

Notifications generated by POM can be broadly put into the following categories.

  1. Schedule-level Notifications – The configurations done here apply equally to all Batch Schedules within the system.

  2. Job-level Notifications – These need to be configured at a Job level. This is done from the Batch Administration screen, while editing a Job.

All Notification Types within POM can be grouped together, based on the event that generates them as seen in the sections below.

POM Post Install Validation

The following notifications can be triggered during POM post-install validation step.

Event Notification Type Intended audience

Exception event during POM post install validation service

POMUpgradeValidation

This notification is sent when there is any failure during asynchronous processing of POM post install validation service.

All

Schedule Upgrade

The following notifications are triggered, when a Schedule is upgraded.

Event Notification Type Configured At Intended audience

Start of Schedule Upgrade

BatchScheduleImport

Created when a Schedule update is triggered.

Schedule

All

Completion of Schedule Upgrade

BatchScheduleImport

Created when a Schedule update has completed

Schedule

All

Schedule Configuration Import

The following notifications are triggered, when a configuration import is initiated by clicking the Import Config button on the Batch Administration screen.

Event Notification Type Configured At Intended audience

Completion of Configuration import

BatchScheduleConfigImport

Created at the completion of the import process.

See Schedule Config Import Summary Email below.

Schedule

All

Customer Modules Synchronization (Retail Home)

The following notifications are triggered, when the “Sync with MDF” button is clicked on the Batch Administration screen.

Event Notification Type Configured At Intended audience

On completion of MDF synchronization with Retail Home

ApplicationModuleEnabled

Created if an Application or Module were to get enabled, during the process. Indicates that new Jobs may have been enabled.

Schedule

All

On completion of MDF synchronization with Retail Home

ApplicationModuleDisabled

Created if an Application or Module were to get disabled, during the process. Indicates that existing Jobs may have been disabled.

Schedule

All

Scheduler Task Execution

The following notifications are generated by the Scheduler, when it runs into any issues with Scheduler Task execution.

Event Notification Type Configured At Intended audience

On Scheduler Task firing, at its designated time

SchedulerTaskFailed

Created for unexpected errors during Scheduler Task processing

Schedule

All

On scheduling a Scheduler Task at Scheduler Day creation time

SchedulerTaskDelayed

Created for Tasks, that cannot be scheduled as their designated time to run has passed.

Schedule

All

On scheduling a Scheduler Task at Scheduler Day creation time

SchedulerTaskSkipped

Created if a Task fails to get scheduled, due to unexpected errors.

Schedule

All

On scheduler task firing at its designated time

SchedulerTaskCancelled

Created when the scheduler task is cancelled when the scheduler is disabled.

Schedule

All

On scheduling the Nightly Scheduler Task at Scheduler Day creation time

SingleNightlyPerDayValidation

Created when the Nightly Task is delayed by a day, due to the validation which ensures only one Nightly runs, per day

Schedule

All

Execution Engine

The following notifications are generated by the Execution Engine, in case it runs into any issues.

Event Notification Type Configured At Intended audience

Exception event during Engine processing

ExecutionEngineIssue

This notification is sent when there are important/critical events/failures with the Execution Engine, such as

  • Job Agent invocation failure

  • Execution Request stuck in SUBMITTING state

Schedule

All

Scheduler Day Creation

The following notifications are all configured at a Schedule level, and triggered during the creation of a Scheduler Day.

Event Notification Type Intended audience

Scheduler Day creation

InterSchedDepIssue

Created when either of the following occurs

  • The business date between the interdependent Schedules vary by more than a day.

  • The External Schedule is day ahead of the current Schedule and previous day data is not available.

  • The inter-schedule dependencies are not valid and disabled.

  • A schedule includes inter-schedule dependencies or execution links that are not valid

All

Scheduler Day creation

NewSchedulerDayFailure

Created when the Scheduler Day creation fails.

All

Completion of Scheduler Day creation

ScheduleChangesSummaryReport

Created after a Scheduler Day is successfully created, to create a report of the changes between the current Scheduler Day and the previous one.

See Schedule Change Summary Email below.

All

Hourly Flow Execution

The following notifications are triggered, during the execution of Hourly Flows.

Event Notification Type Configured At Intended audience

Hourly Flow Skipped

IntradayCycleSkipped

Created when an Hourly Flow is skipped

Schedule

All

Hourly Flow Completed

IntradayCycleCompleted

Created when an Hourly Flow is completed

Schedule

All

Hourly Flow Summary Report

IntradayCycleSummaryReport

Created at the completion of a Hourly Flow, in order to send out a summary of its execution.

See Hourly Flow Summary Email below

Schedule

All

Hourly Flow Pending execution

HourlyPending

Created by the Execution Engine on encountering Hourly Execution Requests that are awaiting execution

Schedule

All

Nightly Flow Execution

The following notifications are triggered, during the execution of the Nightly Flow

Event Notification Type Configured At Intended audience

Start of Nightly Flow

NightlyStart

Created when the Nightly Flow starts.

Schedule

All

Completion of Nightly Flow

NightlyBatchCompleted

Created at the completion of the Nightly Flow.

Schedule

All

Completion of Nightly Flow

NightlySummaryReport

Created at the completion of the Nightly Flow, in order to send out a summary of its execution.

This notification is for internal Oracle internal use.

See Nightly Summary Email below.

Schedule

Oracle Internal

Completion of Nightly Flow

NightlySummaryReportExternal

Created at the completion of the Nightly Flow, in order to send out a summary of its execution

This notification is for customers use.

See Nightly Summary Email below.

Schedule

Customers / System Integrators

Job Execution

The following notifications are triggered during the course of execution of the Job.

Event Notification Type Configured At Intended audience

Start of Job

JobStarted

Created when a Job starts. See Job Start Email below.

Job

All

Completion of Job

JobCompleted

Created when a Job completes successfully. See Job Completion Email below.

Job

All

Job runs for longer than expected

LongRunningJob

Created when the Job runs longer than its configured or calculated threshold runtime.

Schedule

All

Job Execution failure

ErrorNotification

Created when a running Job fails.

This notification is for Oracle internal use.

See Job Error Email below.

Schedule

Oracle Internal

Job Execution failure

ErrorNotificationExternal

Created when a running Job fails.

This notification is for customers use.

See Job Error Email below.

Schedule

Customers / System Integrators

Job waiting for execution

ExternalDepPending

Created when a Job is waiting upon an External Dependency.

Schedule

All

Job waiting for execution

InterSchedDepPending

Created when a Job is waiting upon an Inter-schedule Dependency

Schedule

All

Completion of Job, with warning

JobCompletedWithWarning

This notification is sent when a job completes with a warning. This indicates that this job’s shell script exited with a code that was defined in the System Options as a ‘Completion with Warning code’. For more information on how these codes are setup, see the SystemOption Tab in the A Batch Schedule Spreadsheet Template.

Schedule.

All

Execution Link failure

ExecutionLinkIssue

Created when Execution Links fail. They are run, after the source Job has been invoked by POM (regardless of its status).

Schedule

All

Custom Dependency

CustomDependencyIssue

Created when there is a failure while creating an execution request for the defined Custom dependency. The defined Custom dependency jobs are run by creating an execution request for those jobs before the source Job has been invoked by POM (regardless of its status).

Schedule

All

External Integration

The following notifications are created, when integrating with External systems.

Event Notification Type Configured At Intended audience

Release External Dependency

ExternalDepComplete

Created when an External Dependency is released

Schedule

All

Callback publish failure

CallbackFailure

Created when a Callback fails to get published.

Schedule

All

Batch Entity Operations

The following notifications are triggered, when Custom Batch Entities are created, modified or deleted.

Event Notification Type Configured At Intended audience

Custom Batch Entity API invocation

BatchEntityUpdateEvent

Created when a Custom Batch Entity (Flow or Process) is either created, modified or deleted.

Schedule

Oracle Internal

General

Event Notification Type Configured At Intended audience

System Information

InformationNotification

Internal informational

Schedule

Oracle Internal

System Warning

WarningNotification

Internal warning

Schedule

Oracle Internal

System Error

SystemErrorNotification

Internal error

Schedule

Oracle Internal

Emails

By default, all notifications are shown on the POM application. It is an option to configure notifications to also send e-mails. This is accomplished through the Notifications Administration function of Retail Home. Refer to the “Notifications Administration” chapter of the Retail Home Administration Guide for more information.

Also, job error and long running job notifications will have “Custom Entity” keyword in the subject line to distinguish between seeded and custom entities.

Example Email for Long-Running Job
Example Email for Job Error

Schedule Change Summary Email

This summary is generated as part of the Scheduler Day creation process. It highlights any differences between the configuration of the previous Scheduler Day and the current. It also highlights differences in scheduling between the Schedule instances. This email has no attachments.

Sample Schedule Change Summary Email

Schedule Config Import Summary Email

This summary is generated once a configuration has been imported successfully into POM using the Import Config button of the Batch Administration screen. This email provides the following attachments

  1. Batch Configuration prior to the Import (JSON). This backup can be used to restore the configuration, in case the new configuration is not good enough.

  2. The new Batch Configuration.

  3. A JSON that highlights the mismatches between the previous and the new configuration.

Example Schedule Config Import Summary Email

Nightly Summary Email

At the end of the Nightly Cycle, a summary report is created that is sent as an email. This report is sent to email addresses, configured for the NightlySummaryReportExternal and NightlySummaryReport Notification Types. The former Notification Type is meant to be subscribed by Customers, while the latter is for Oracle Internal.

This email also contains two attachments. One is a summarized report (CSV) of all the Job executions of that Nightly cycle. The other attachment contains a summarized report of the Nightly cycle completion times for the last 15 days. The latter attachment is only available to email recipients of the NightlySummaryReport Notification Type.

Example Nightly Summary Email

Hourly Flow Summary Email

This email is generated when a Flow on the Hourly Cycle completes successfully. It is sent to the email addresses that subscribed to the Notification Type – IntradayCycleSummaryReport.

Example Hourly Flow Summary Email

Job Error Email

When a Job fails during execution, a Job Error email is sent. This email will include as an attachment the log file of the failed Job execution. This email will be generated, even if the skip-on-error flag is set on the Job.

Note:

The Job Error email sent to email addresses configured on the ErrorNotification type, will contain the log file attachment, while the email sent to email addresses configured on the ErrorNotificationExternal type will not contain this attachment.
Example Job Error Email

Job Start Email

To notify of a Job starting, is a setting available at an individual Job. This option is specified on the Edit Job function of the Batch Administration screen. This email has no attachments.

Example Job Start Email

Job Completion Email

To notify of a Job completing successfully, is a setting available at an individual Job. This option is specified on the Edit Job function of the Batch Administration screen. This email has no attachments.

Example Job Completion Email