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Configuring Delivery Protocols

Delivery protocols prepare and send formatted notifications to delivery endpoints such as SMTP servers and other messaging gateways. When you define a notification class, you configure the delivery protocols that can be used to deliver the notifications from that notification class. For example, if your notification class supports sending notifications through e-mail and to cellular phones using Short Message Service (SMS), you would configure two delivery protocols: SMTP and SMS.

This section describes how Notification Services selects and uses delivery protocols and how you can define delivery protocols for a notification class.

In This Section

Topic Description

Notification Distribution

Describes how Notification Services selects a delivery protocol and delivers a formatted notification.

Specifying the Delivery Protocol Name and Fields

Describes how to specify the protocol name and how to define fields for the protocol header.

Specifying Delivery Protocol Execution Settings

Describes the execution settings you can configure for a delivery protocol, such as a schedule for retrying notification delivery.

See Also

Concepts

Defining the Notification Schema
Configuring Content Formatters
Specifying Digest or Multicast Delivery
Specifying the Notification Batch Size
Specifying the Notification Expiration Age
Notification Formatting and Delivery Architecture

Other Resources

Defining Notification Classes
Defining Notification Classes
Defining Notification Services Applications

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