Maintaining Sentinel Overview(v2, v4, v6)
Logging In
On running the Sentinel Administration program you will be prompted to log into your database using either the PSFADMIN or the CUSTADMIN user name and password.
The database name will automatically appear.
Main Screen
Upon successfully logging into Sentinel you will be presented with the main screen of the application.
Across the top of the screen you will have three tabs: Rules, E-mails and Options.
Rules Tab
Selecting the Rules tab will display, in the box beneath, a list of the rules currently created.
E-Mails tab
Selecting the E-mails tab will display a list of all USER IDs’ and the e-mail addresses associated with these users
Adding a new email address to an existing user is achieved by double-clicking on the relevant User ID or Group.
Options Tab
Selecting the Options tab will allow you to set, in the box beneath, the SMTP server settings, the email username and password, and the email address to send any Sentinel notifications from.
You will also be able to set whether the Sentinel system uses SSL or not.
SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is a standard security technology allowing for the establishment of an encrypted link between a server and a client—typically a web server (website) and a browser; or a mail server and a mail client (e.g. Outlook).]
The Options tab also allows you to set the URL (web address) of the PS Financials web or My portal so that this is included in links used within the Sentinel system.
The next option is to set the poll frequency (the frequency at which the system polls through all the Sentinel rules in order to determine if any new emails need to be sent). This should not be too low as to restart polling before it has processed all rules.
The check boxes allow the administrator to set whether
emails are to be sent.
to log (Sentinel) server activity.
the Sentinel service is to be enabled.
Once any changes are made you will need to click the Update button to save the changes.
Service Settings
If Sentinel is installed as a service then you can use the Service Settings button to change these settings.
A new dialog box will appear and you can set the SQL server to be used, the SQL User ID to be used, the SQL User password and also where to save Sentinel log files to, from within this window.
The log files are important to allow investigation of any Sentinel problems, but it is essential to know where these are being stored as the will require manual maintenance to ensure they are not using too much disk space and they will require either archiving or deletion should space become an issue.
The service can also be started, stopped or restarted from here.
Any changes made within Sentinel will require the service restarting otherwise the changes will not take effect until the next time that service restarted.
To change the location of the Sentinel log files you will need to stop the service, then either type the exact location of the folder into which the log files need to be created, or use the browse button to browse to the folder into which the log files need creating. Once set the user will have to start the Sentinel service manually.