E-mail Alerts from Essbase Cubes

Question

Hi,
I have Essbase 7.1.3 windows server and We do lots of Cube processing through Batch Files.
I would like to have an option to send email alerts to the business users once we are done with the processing.
Say for example , I have a Deposits Essbase cube and once i am done with the calculation and Enable connects to the users i would like to send a mail notification " The Deposit Cube now available....."
Essbase have some thing called " Triggers..." But i am not sure how far will it help me.
Looking forward for your inputs.
Thnx,
MS

Answer 1

Okay, yes, I still use esscmd, so this example is for an esscmd script (some day I will convert them, I promise...).
The shell (batch) script that I use calls esscmd to do the job, and then scans the script (using the for command) for tokens. These tokens determine who gets an email depending on the outcome of the script. By encoding the messaging into the script, I can control the business logic at an appropriate level. The TITLE token is also used during the notification, but I left the logic out that builds the SUBJECT variable (for brevity)...
:TITLE Load Budget data to Daily Trends
:Job Notifications:
:ONERR [email protected]
:ONERR [email protected]
:ONSUCCESS [email protected]
:ONSUCCESS [email protected]
:ONSUCCESS [email protected]
:ONSUCCESS [email protected]
LOGIN "LocalHost" "<superuser>" "<superpassword>";
... etc.Here is the relevant part of the shell job that scans for tokens (the RESULT environment variable is set to either "ERR" or "SUCCESS" based on the output, with other variables set as needed):
TYPE %SCRFILE% | FIND ":ON%RESULT%" >Notify.tmp
FOR /f "tokens=2" %%a in (Notify.tmp) DO SendEmail -f %FROM% -t %%a -u "%SUBJECT%" -m "%MESSAGE%" -s %RELAY% -a %ATTACH%
ERASE /Q Notify.tmp