Technical information

INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION GUIDE
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User and device notify procedures
If they exist, user and device notify procedures provide an additional level of granularity and power. Instead of being
limited to customizing a particular notification point for an entire site, you can also customize it on a user-by-user or
device-by-device basis for sent and received faxes, respectively.
As with site notify procedures, user and device are not supplied with the default VSI-FAX system-you must create
them if you want to use them.
See also
Refer to Custom notify procedures
for additional information.
Send notification
The send notification mechanism is specialized for two basic scenarios:
Normal (non-group) faxing
Group faxing
This specialization is required because each group fax is split up into individual fax requests by the scheduler, one
fax request for each recipient in the group. Normal (non-group) faxes use a single fax request for the entire fax job.
This figure shows the notification mechanism for normal sent faxes:
Launch notify procedures (LNPs)
Immediately after a fax is submitted to the system, one or more Launch Notify Procedures (LNPs) are run. LNPs run
before the fax is sent to the scheduler (before any fax attempts are initiated).
Notice that this area of the diagram illustrates the hierarchical behavior that is typical of all notify points in the system:
The system LNP is always run without decision (automatically).