User Guide

About Notifications

Notifications are the way AlloyScan tells you about events that matter, such as a new device being discovered, an app registration about to expire, a computer becoming inactive, or a user account being created. The feature includes a catalog of notifications you can subscribe to, automatic system notifications, delivery channels, and the notification templates that administrators configure.

How notifications work

Notification categories

Notifications available for subscription fall into three categories:

  • Administrative - app-registration lifecycle events such as App registration expires in 30 days, App registration expires in 7 days, and App registration has expired.
  • Standard - discovery events such as New SNMP device detected, New computer detected, New SNMP device added to inventory, and New computer added to inventory.
  • Conditional - state-based alerts such as SNMP device is not active, Computer is not active, and Software installed on computer.

System notifications

System notifications, such as New user email confirmation, Welcome to application, and Password reset, are sent automatically when the corresponding event occurs. They do not require subscriptions.

Notifications panel

Click the bell icon in the application header to open the Notifications side panel. When there are no messages, the panel displays No notifications and provides a link to alert subscription management.

Delivery channels

Each subscription specifies one or more delivery channels:

  • Email - delivered to your email address.
  • In-app - shown inside AlloyScan via the bell icon in the page header, which opens a Notifications side panel.

Email messages include the template's subject, greeting, message, and signature. In-app notifications use only the subject and message.

Subscription model

Subscriptions determine which notifications you receive and through which delivery channels.

Open the Notifications side panel from the bell icon, then select Manage alert subscriptions. The catalog has All notifications and My subscriptions filters. On the Site tab, Site Administrators and Global Administrators see Administrative, Standard, and Conditional sections; Users see Standard and Conditional sections.

Select Subscribe for a notification, or Open to subscribe for a Conditional group, then choose In-app, Email, or both. My subscriptions shows the selected channels as In-app and Email badges.

The Global tab is visible only to Global Administrators. It lets them subscribe to Administrative notifications about instance-level events. дл

Specialized event behaviors

  • App registration expiration. Administrative templates fire at 30 days, 7 days, and expired milestones. An expired registration also appears as a persistent red banner on every page.

Why this matters

  • Operational awareness. Standard and Conditional templates keep you ahead of changes in your inventory, such as new endpoints, devices going stale, or software appearing where it should not.
  • Integration health. Subscribing to app-registration notifications helps you identify registrations that need renewal before access expires.
  • Account hygiene. System notifications carry user lifecycle messages such as confirmation, welcome, and password reset that depend on a working email transport.

Key distinctions

  • Notifications are messages sent to subscribed recipients or triggered automatically by a system event. Administrators can check delivery status in the Notifications log.
  • The In-app delivery channel posts messages reachable through the bell icon. It is distinct from operating-system desktop notifications.
  • Notification templates define what a notification contains and the event conditions that trigger it; subscriptions define who receives that notification and on which channel.

Limitations

  • Email delivery depends on the instance-wide Email client configuration.
  • The notifications available for subscription depend on the Site and instance configuration.