Security Compliance

How to turn off data-owner warning emails in ARM

Following this article, you will be able to turn off email warnings for the data owner configuration.

First published date

10/26/2021 12:53 PM

Last published date

2/1/2022 7:36 AM

Overview

Starting the ARM release 2021.4.0.218 warning emails are sent if the data owner is not configured or no resources are assigned to the data owner. Emails are sent also when a change happens in an organizational category.
These emails are sent to each ARM Administrator and Junior administrator role member and to the related data owner of the organizational category, respectively.
Following this article, you will be able to turn off these emails.

Product section

Access Rights Manager

Resolution

To turn off these warning emails, a configuration switch needs to be added to the pnServer.config.xml.

To achieve this goal, please follow the steps below:
  • Open C:\ProgramData\protected-networks.com\8MAN\cfg\pnServer.config.xml in text editor
    • Before </config> add the following: 
      <dataowner>
	<mail>
		<sendMailForEmptyOrganizationCategories type="System.Boolean">false</sendMailForEmptyOrganizationCategories>
        <sendMailForDataOwnerChanges type="System.Boolean">false</sendMailForDataOwnerChanges>
	</mail>
</dataowner>
  • Save the file
  • Restart ARM service
Emails regarding the Data Owner configuration should not be sent anymore.
To test this start database maintenance manually or wait until the next one is done, by default that is at 5 am every day.