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Schedule Alerts

Schedule Alerts

This section allows you to configure automated email reports for certificate inventory and health monitoring. You can enable weekly or monthly alerts to receive reports directly in your inbox.

Prerequisite: Alerts are delivered by email, so an SMTP server must first be configured under Miscellaneous → Service Setup.

Here are the available Report Options:

Monthly/Weekly Reports
- Get insights into expiring certificates and template-based certificate counts.
- Inventory Reports – Monitor certificate status, including active, denied, expired, failed, revoked, and key length details.
- PKI Health Info – Stay informed about the overall health of your PKI environment.
Weekly and monthly reports are selected independently. These selections are personal: they apply only to the signed-in user, so each user who wants these reports must turn them on for their own account.
Custom Expiry Notifications

Custom intervals can be set to trigger email alerts for certificates nearing expiration:
- Weekly Alerts
  1. Sends one email per week containing a list of certificates that will expire within the specified number of days.
  2. Multiple timeframes can be configured.
  3. Default values: 7, 30, 60, and 90 days. To add a value, enter a number; to remove one, click its ⊗ icon.
  4. Example: If 7, 15, and 30 are entered, an alert will be sent weekly with certificates expiring in the next 7, 15, and 30 days.
- Daily Critical Alerts
  1. Sends an email each day listing certificates set to expire within the defined intervals.
  2. Recommended for critical short-term monitoring.
  3. Default values: 0, 3, and 6 days, where 0 means certificates expiring today. Keep these values small.
  4. Example: If 0 and 3 are entered, daily alerts will include certificates expiring today and within the next 3 days.
Once configured, reports will be sent based on your selected schedule, ensuring proactive management of your certificate lifecycle.

Good to know: These intervals apply to the whole installation, not only to your account. If Certificate Criticality Levels (below) are enabled, they are used instead of these intervals.
Global Email Notification

Toggle Certificates state email notification between the certificate owners and watchers.
- All: Sends the email notification to both owner and watchers of the certificates.
- Owner: Sends the email notification only to the owner of the certificates.
- Watcher: Sends the email notification only to the watchers of the certificates.
All is the default. This setting applies to the whole installation, to every certificate.

Important: Changes are saved only when you click Schedule at the bottom of the page. One click saves the settings of all categories. Check the confirmation message; if an error is shown (for example, overlapping criticality ranges), nothing is saved, so fix it and click Schedule again.

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