Spectrum Technology Platform can send an email notification when a
license, database, or software component is about to expire. This allows you to take
the necessary action to ensure that your business processes are not disrupted by an
expiration. Some of the components that have expiration dates include:
- Licenses
- Databases, such as U.S. postal databases used for CASS processing
- Certain software components, such as the engine used to validate U.S. addresses
in the Spectrum Global Addressing Management
Viewing Expiration Dates
To view the items that have expiration dates, open Management
Console and go to .
Configuring Expiration Notifications
You can choose which items you want to be notified about so that you only receive
notifications for those items that concern you. This procedure describes how to
specify when to send expiration notifications, and the recipients of the notification emails.
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Open the Management Console.
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Go to .
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Click Configure Notification.
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Check the Send notification box.
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In the Days before expiration field, specify the number
of days in advance that you want to be notified of a pending license, software,
or data expiration. This is the default value. You can specify a different
notification period for each license item on the page.
For example, if you want to be notified 30 days before items expire, specify
30.
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Under Recipients, click the Add button
and enter the email address you want to receive the expiration notification
email. You can multiple email addresses if needed.
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Click Save.
You have now specified recipients for the notifications and how far in advance of
expiration to send the notification email. If you have not already done so, you must
configure a mail server to use to send the emails. Notifications will not be sent
until a mail server has been configured.
Note: By default the system will send expiration notifications for all items that expire
(licenses, databases, software components, and so on). You can disable expiration
notifications for specific items by going to .