Posts a message to a newsgroup used
by your organization. The newsgroup must use Network News Transfer
Protocol (NNTP) to send and receive information.
- Requirements
- Newsgroup service must be available.
Note: You cannot use this
action to post a message to a secure news server.
- Result
- The specified message is posted to the newsgroup.
- Example
- This action can be useful as an additional logging mechanism outside
of IBM® Systems Director.
Use this event action when you want to send information to a newsgroup
after a specified event is generated. The message might notify members
of a technical support organization when a critical server is having
problems.
Note: You can use event-data-substitution variables to include
event data information into the newsgroup message. For more information,
see "Event-data-substitution variables."