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title: Managing notification publisher instances
description: Use PingFederate's functionality to create, edit, review, delete, or set as a default any notification publisher instance.
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version: 13.1
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revdate: July 5, 2022
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  about-this-task: About this task
  steps: Steps
  choose-from: Choose from:
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# Managing notification publisher instances

Use PingFederate's functionality to create, edit, review, delete, or set as a default any notification publisher instance.

## About this task

PingFederate delivers messages to administrators and end users based on notification publisher settings. Depending on your use cases, you can create one or more notification publisher instances. For example, you might select an SMTP notification publisher instance to deliver messages to your end users in an HTML Form Adapter instance, another SMTP notification publisher instance to deliver licensing messages to your fellow administrators, and an Amazon SNS notification publisher instance to deliver messages regarding SAML metadata updates.

## Steps

* Go to **System > External Systems > Notification Publishers**.

  ### Choose from:

  * To configure a new instance, click **Create New Instance**.

  * To modify an existing instance, select it by its name under **Instance Name**.

  * To review the usage of an existing instance, click **Check Usage** under **Action**.

  * To remove an existing instance or to cancel the removal request, click **Delete** or **Undelete** under **Action**.

  * To make an instance the default notification publisher instance, click **Set as Default** under **Action**.