OpenCRVS
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  • 👋Introduction
  • Product Specifications
    • Functional Architecture
    • Workflow management
    • Status Flow Diagram
    • Users
      • Examples
    • Core functions
      • 1. Notify event
      • 2. Declare event
      • 3. Validate event
      • 4. Register event
      • 5. Print certificate
      • 5. Issue certificate
      • 6. Search for a record
      • 7. View record
      • 8. Correct record
      • 9. Verify record
      • 10. Archive record
      • 11. Vital statistics export
    • Support functions
      • 10. Login
      • 11. Audit
      • 12. Deduplication
      • 13. Performance management
      • 14. Payment
      • 15. Learning
      • 16. User support
    • Admin functions
      • 17. User management
      • 18. Comms management
      • 19. Content management
      • 20. Config management
    • Data functions
      • 21. Legacy data import
      • 22. Legacy paper import
  • Technology
    • Architecture
      • Performance tests
    • Standards
      • FHIR Documents
        • Event Composition
        • Person
        • Registration Task
        • Event Observations
        • Locations
    • Security
    • Interoperability
      • Create a client
      • Authenticate a client
      • Event Notification clients
      • Record Search clients
      • Webhook clients
      • National ID client
      • FHIR Location REST API
      • Other ways to interoperate
  • Default configuration
    • Intro to Farajaland
    • Civil registration in Farajaland
    • OpenCRVS configuration in Farajaland
      • User / role mapping
      • Application settings
      • Declaration forms
      • Certificate templates
    • Business process flows in Farajaland
  • Setup
    • 1. Establish team
    • 2. Gather requirements
    • 3. Installation
      • 3.1 Set-up a local development environment
        • 3.1.1 Install the required dependencies
        • 3.1.2 Install OpenCRVS locally
        • 3.1.3 Starting and stopping OpenCRVS
        • 3.1.4 Log in to OpenCRVS locally
        • 3.1.5 Tooling
      • 3.2 Set-up your own country configuration
        • 3.2.1 Fork your own country configuration repository
        • 3.2.2 Set up administrative address divisions
          • 3.2.2.1 Prepare source file for administrative structure
          • 3.2.2.2 Prepare source file for statistics
        • 3.2.3 Set up CR offices and Health facilities
          • 3.2.3.1 Prepare source file for CRVS Office facilities
          • 3.2.3.2 Prepare source file for health facilities
        • 3.2.4 Set up employees & roles for testing or production
          • 3.2.3.1 Prepare source file for employees
          • 3.2.3.2 Configure role titles
        • 3.2.5 Set up application settings
          • 3.2.5.1 Configuring Metabase Dashboards
        • 3.2.6 Configure certificate templates
        • 3.2.7 Configure declaration forms
          • 3.2.7.1 Configuring an event form
        • 3.2.8 Seeding your local development environment database
          • 3.2.8.1 Clearing your local development environment database
        • 3.2.9 Countryconfig APIs explained
          • 3.2.9.1 Managing language content
      • 3.3 Set-up a server-hosted environment
        • 3.3.1 Provision your server nodes with SSH access
        • 3.3.2 Provision environment
        • 3.3.3 Provision a comms gateway
        • 3.3.4 Set up an SMTP server for OpenCRVS monitoring alerts
        • 3.3.5 Setup DNS A records
        • 3.3.6 Deploy (Automated & Manual)
        • 3.3.7 Seeding & clearing data on a server
        • 3.3.8 Automated & manual backup and manual restore
    • 4. Functional configuration
      • 4.1 Configure application settings
      • 4.2 Configure registration periods and fees
      • 4.3 Create new user roles
      • 4.4 Managing system users
    • 5. Testing
    • 6. Go-live
    • 7. Monitoring
      • 7.1 Application logs
      • 7.2 Infrastructure health
      • 7.3 Routine monitoring checklist
      • 7.4 Setting up alerts
      • 7.5 Managing a Docker Swarm
  • General
    • Contributing
    • Releases
      • v1.3.5: Release notes
      • v1.3.4: Release notes
      • v1.3.2: Release notes
      • v1.3.1: Release notes
      • v1.3.* to v1.3.* Migration notes
      • v1.3.0: Release notes
      • v1.2.* to v1.3.* Migration notes
        • v1.2 to v1.3: Form migration
      • v1.2.1: Release notes
      • Patch: Elasticsearch 7.10.2
      • v1.2.0: Release notes
      • v1.1.* to v1.2.* Migration notes
      • v.1.1.2: Release notes
      • v.1.1.1: Release notes
      • v1.1.0: Release notes
    • Interoperability roadmap
    • Product roadmap
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3.3.4 Set up an SMTP server for OpenCRVS monitoring alerts

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We use , in tandem with ElasticSearch and Kibana to monitor the health of the OpenCRVS stack in production.

In order for OpenCRVS to alert your Technical System Administrator of any memory or hardware issues, we have set up email notifications as the Elastalert option. Therefore you should have an setup. You can read more about monitoring OpenCRVS .

linked to a Gmail account, but there are countless other paid for SMTP services such as or .

You will need to take note of your SMTP host, port, username, password & your Technical System Administrator's email address for the entering as Github Secrets in . We have hardcoded the service to use SMTP SSL by default.

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