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title: Appendix: Email Notifications Generated By Services Director
slug: ps/help/en_us/sd/25x/ug/appendix-email-notifications-generated-by-services-director
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createdAt: 2026-08-02T06:44:35.152Z
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## Notifications/Alerts from the Services Director Core Software

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The following notifications are generated from the core Services Director software. They are common to both the software-only and VA form factors of Services Director.
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Only email subject lines are shown. Email bodies will normally contain further detail related to the reason for the notification/alert.
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| Functionality         | Area Email Subject Line                                                                                | Event Description                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| --------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Licensing             | Ivanti Services Director: License is due to expire on \<Services Director host>                        | Sent on a daily basis when a Services Director controller license is due to expire within the license expiry warning period (this warning period is configurable, but defaults to 30 days).               |
|                       | Ivanti Services Director: Required bandwidth/add-on pack is due to expire on \<Services Director host> | Sent on a daily basis when a Services Director bandwidth pack license is due to expire within the bandwidth license expiry warning period (this warning period is configurable, but defaults to 30 days). |
| Monitoring            | Ivanti Services Director Monitoring has detected \<failure / recovery events>                          | Sent as a result of monitoring detecting that connectivity to vTM instances or Services Director controllers have either failed or recovered after a failure.                                             |
| vTM Self-Registration | Instance \<Instance name> has registered itself and requires your attention.                           | Sent when a self-registering instance has sent a registration request that the Services Director Administrator may wish to manually accept.                                                               |
|                       | Instance \<instance name> has re-registered itself and requires your attention.                        | Sent when a self-registering instance has been declined but has attempted to self-register again with different parameters.                                                                               |
|                       | Instance \<instance name> has registered itself and was auto-accepted by policy \<policy name>         | Sent when a self-registering instance has been received by Services Director, and automatically accepted by an auto-acceptance policy.                                                                    |
|                       | Instance \<instance name> registered itself and failed to be auto-accepted by \<policy name>           | Sent when a self-registering instance has been received by Services Director, but for some reason failed to be automatically accepted by an auto-acceptance policy.                                       |
| Metering              | Services Director: Metering Warnings have been found for instances on \<Services Director host>        | Sent periodically if potential metering discrepancies are identified.                                                                                                                                     |
|                       | Ivanti Services Director: Log space low on \<Services Director host>                                   | Sent periodically if available log space has dropped below 512 MB (the period is configurable, but set to one hour by default).                                                                           |
|                       | Ivanti Services Director: Log space critical on \<Services Director host>                              | Sent periodically if available log space has dropped below 256 MB (the period is configurable, but set to one hour by default).                                                                           |
|                       | Metering phone-home successful                                                                         | Sent to confirm that Services Director has successfully sent a set of metering logs back to Ivanti.                                                                                                       |
|                       | Metering phone-home failure                                                                            | Sent if Services Director has been unable to send a set of metering logs back to Ivanti.                                                                                                                  |

## Notifications/Alerts from the Services Director VA

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The following notifications are sent from the Services Director VA. These are in addition to those sent from the Core software.
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Only email subject lines are shown. Email bodies will normally contain further detail related to the reason for the notification/alert.
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| Event Description                                           | Functionality             | Area Email Subject Line                                   |
| ----------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- |
| Local Services Director Process Failure (Killed or Crashed) | Services Director service | Local Services Director Failure Notification              |
| Local Services Director Process Recovery                    |                           | Local Services Director Recovery Notification             |
| Local DB Failure                                            | Database                  | Local Database Failure Notification                       |
| Local DB Recovery                                           |                           | Local Database Recovery Notification                      |
| Peer Services Director Failure                              | High Availability         | Peer Services Director Connectivity Failure Notification  |
| Peer Services Director Recovery                             |                           | Peer Services Director Connectivity Recovery Notification |
| Local Gluster Failure                                       |                           | Local File System Replication Failure Notification        |
| Local Gluster Recovery                                      |                           | Local File System Replication Recovery Notification       |
| Services Director Backup Generation Failure                 | Disaster Recovery         | Backup Generate Operation Failure Notification            |
| Services Director Backup Generation Recovery                |                           | Backup Generate Operation Recovery Notification           |
| Services Director Backup Transfer Failure                   |                           | Backup Transfer Operation Failure Notification            |
| Services Director Backup Transfer Recovery                  |                           | Backup Transfer Operation Recovery Notification           |
| Master Password Missing                                     | Master Password           | Master password Operation Failure Notification            |
| Master Password Recovery                                    |                           | Master password Operation Recovery Notification           |
| Crash Core Generated                                        | System                    | Core file found for process: \<Process Name>              |
| High CPU Usage                                              |                           | CPU utilization too high                                  |
| High CPU Usage Recovery                                     |                           | CPU utilization alarm clearing                            |
| Paging Alarm                                                |                           | Paging activity too high                                  |
| Paging Alarm Cleared                                        |                           | Paging activity alarm clearing                            |
| File Systems Mount Failures                                 |                           | File System %s is full                                    |
| File System Mount Recovery                                  |                           | File System %s is no longer full                          |
| Link State                                                  |                           | Linkstate alarm triggered                                 |
| Link State Cleared                                          |                           | Linkstate alarm cleared                                   |
| Link Duplex                                                 |                           | Link duplex alarm triggered                               |
| Link Duplex Clear                                           |                           | Link duplex alarm cleared                                 |
| Link IO Errors                                              |                           | Link I/O errors alarm triggered                           |
| Link IO Errors Recovery                                     |                           | Link I/O errors alarm cleared                             |
| Memory Error                                                |                           | Memory Error Detected                                     |
| Memory Error Cleared                                        |                           | Memory error alarm cleared                                |
| Unexpected Shutdown                                         |                           | Unexpected shut down                                      |
| Secure Vault Locked                                         |                           | Secure vault must be unlocked                             |
| Secure Vault Unlocked                                       |                           | Secure vault has been unlocked                            |
| Process Crash                                               |                           | Process failure: %s                                       |
| Process Unexpected Exit                                     |                           | Process exit: %s                                          |
