Event Notification Prerequisites

This article describes the prerequisites for subscribing to event notifications. Once you complete the following prerequisites, you can enable and then subscribe to event notifications.

Ensure that your firewall will accept the Aria IP address range. Please contact Aria Customer Support to obtain the Aria IP address range.

Select your chosen provisioning settings that determine how and when event notifications are sent to your system(s). Detailed instructions for configuring your provisioning settings are provided in Provisioning Settings.

If you have event notifications sent to you as XML documents, you may choose to work with XML document definition files that describe the structure of the data in the event notifications that Aria sends to your system(s). One XML document definition is available for each event group. These files are available in XSD format. You can validate the data in the XML documents against the applicable XSD file. You can use the XML document definition files in either of these two ways:

Links to XSD files are provided in the Event Class Categorization table.

If you want Aria to generate statements for your customers as XML documents, you must enable XML statements in Aria. To do so, Click Configuration > Notifications > Notification Settings > XML Statement Distillation Option (you may have to go to the next page of notification settings to see this option) > select your desired Value to specify how you want Aria to generate XML statements:

Aria generates XML statements for customers with only the following notification methods:

You can use the update_acct_notify_method_m, create_acct_complete_m, or update_acct_complete_m API call to set a customer’s notification method. In order to work with XML statements generated by Aria, you must also do the following: