Editing System-generated Notifications (section)

= "IMPORTANT REMINDER - SYSTEM SHUT DOWN TODAY" =

Every night at midnight, a script ([[Infrastructure_Machines#Cronjobs|shutdownreminder.pl]]) runs which looks for systems (in [[Management_System_/_Public_Website_/_Signup_/_Account_Manager#jc:systems|jc:systems]]) which are marked with a <tt>cancel_date</tt> (but no stop date – i.e. they’re pending shutdown). If the cancel date is equal to the current date or current date + 10, 5, 2, or 1 days, it will send them a shutdown reminder email (cc’ing support@johncompanies.com). All emails are logged so there’s no need to save these cc’s. Typically, we keep the “shutdown today” reminder in the queue as a reminder that it needs to be shut down (manually, typically at the end of the day). The list of systems set to be shutdown is also listed on the main page in Mgmt.

A series of these go out at the cancel date gets closer, until the day of the cancel at which point the subject switches from "SHUT DOWN IN X DAYS" to "SHUT DOWN TODAY"

'''Action to take:''' delete these emails, but when you get the notice about "SHUT DOWN TODAY", that is your reminder to actually stop the system today.