Install the Dashboard Gadget

Owned by Andy Brook [Plugin People] (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Jun 06, 2015
3 min read

As an administrator, you may want to keep tabs on what your JEMHC instance is doing, message/data volume and the status of inbound/outbound mail connection.

Step-by-step guide

  1. As an admin, go to JIRA > Dashboards > Manage Dashboards, select Create new dashboard, call it "Addon Status" then click Add.
  2. Click Addon Status to access the new dashboard:
  3. Click add a  new gadget:
  4. As the JEMHC widget is described in our addon, get JIRA to go and load it:
  5. That should then allow you to search for JEMH, see the gadget entry below, then add the required gadgets:

  6. The new JEMHC widget will now be shown, for best layout use:

  7. The Message Gadget is handy to keep an eye on current data and message volume.  It can be used to monitor post-change outcome, (changing catchemail addresses for example)

    Message/Data GadgetAreaDescription
    1Message volume consumption
    2Data volume consumption
    3Volume usage summary
    4Inbound mail connections and status
    5Outbound mail connections and status

  8. Usage History Gadget can illustrate your trending usage of JEMHC

    Usage History GadgetDescription
    Traffic In Every email message pulled by JEMHC is a message consumed, every email message pulled and its data count, attachments and content sent to JIRA also counts towards data.
    Traffic Out Every email message sent by JEMHC is a message consumed, JEMHC sends one message per event with all recipients as BCC to minimize message and data volume.
    Maintenance In Typically, message that do not 'match' a JEMHC Profile incoming 'catchemail' address won't be processed, but still count as a message consumed and data. Maintenance messages are wasteful and should be minimized. See Common Problems relating to Unexplained/HighlevelsofMaintenancenotifications. Dropped messages also count as an inbound maintenance message.
    Maintenance Out Messages that won't get processed by JEMHC could be forwarded (see Profile > Non-catch Email Action), the default is to 'forward' that message to the forward user for review, which counts for message and data. Dropping non-matching messages is possible (be careful!). Other reasons for maintenance messages are that the Profile determined that it can't or shouldn't be processed, possibly due to blacklisting or other profile driven condition. Ping 'test' Messages also count as an outbound maintenance message.

 

 

Refresh is currently manual, via icon top right of gadget.