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Managing Notifications

The ACTIVATE control plane includes a customizable notification system for both our web interface and your ACTIVATE-linked email address.

Navigate to your account settings (Username > Account).

Screenshot of the user selecting Account from the username menu.

In Preferences, click Notifications.

Screenshot of the user selecting Notifications in their account settings.

Here, you can configure your notification settings.

Screenshot of the Notifications page.

Past notifications are listed separately in the Inbox, which you can also reach by clicking the bell icon in the navigation bar.

Changing Notification Settings

Notifications are grouped by category — Workflow, Scheduler, and Platform — with one row per notification type.

Screenshot of the notification settings.

You can select how you would like to receive your notifications here. Web notifications appear under the bell icon and in the Inbox on the ACTIVATE control plane. Email notifications are sent directly to your ACTIVATE-linked email address.

By default, all options for Workflow, Scheduler, and Platform notifications are enabled as Web notifications. Use the Web and Email toggles on a row to enable or disable that notification.

The toggles on a category's header row turn every notification in that category on or off for that channel.

Screenshot of a category's Web toggle.

When you’re done, click Save.

About Notification Types

Our notification system includes the types outlined below.

  • Workflows
    • Job Fail: If a workflow fails during start-up or run-time, this notification will be triggered.
    • Ready Interactive Workflow: Because interactive workflows can have longer start-up times, we’ve included this notification to send when an interactive session is ready to use.
  • Scheduler
    • Job Start/Finish: Job status notifications will be sent from the scheduler’s prolog and epilog scripts. This method requires no cluster side user action, and will send notifications about your jobs when selected.
    • —mail-type: This notification uses the Slurm flag --mail-type, which is set by the user on the cluster in order to send notifications when certain events occur. This method requires users to enter the --mail-type flag when calling salloc, sbatch, srun, or in their job scripts. For more information about these Slurm commands, please see Submitting Jobs via Slurm.
  • Platform
    • General Notification: These notifications include cluster start-up messages and run-time errors.