Smarts NCM: How to disable email notifications for specific events in Email Integration Module?

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - NCM

Resolution

How to disable specific events in Email integration module to avoid emails from NCM?

Example email notification:
From: ncm1.emc.com [mailto:ncm1.emc.com]
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 6:33 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Device Configuration Change Event
 
The following Network Configuration Manager event has occurred
 A Device configuration state  created for device TEST01 managed in network SG. The following configuration units have changed: - Identity. The change was internal:true and contained core config units:true. Please note a device configuration change event is created when ANY config unit, revisionable or not, is changed. The state is only updated if one or more revisionable units are changed.
This event occurred at 2014-09-19T14:02:34 and was sent from server bngncm1.lss.emc.com
You are receiving this e-mail because you have been configured as a recipient of this class of event. If you would like to be removed as a recipient, please contact your Network Configuration Manager admin.
Auto-generated e-mail. Please do not respond.




If you want to stop notifications, you can invoke stop (This will stop the mail Integration service until the next time JBOSS restarts). Or you can remove certain events for notifications. 
 
Navigate to https://<NCM_serverIP>:8881/jmx-console/

To Stop:

 
 
To remove required events:
Check the current events by invoking on listRegisteredEvents

 
Copy the event name and come back to previous page, paste the event name in removeEvent, p1 field and Invoke.

 


 
After Invoke, you can check the listRegisteredEvents, the event would be removed. However JBOSS restart is required for changes to take effect.