Administrators can optionally enable notifications for account management events. If enabled, PingFederate generates notification messages based on the following events.

Event Alert
An administrator has turned off the Notify Administrator of Account Changes option. PingFederate generates a notification message to all administrators.

The message includes the username of the administrator who made the change.

An administrator's email address has been updated by another administrator. PingFederate generates a notification message to the previous email address and another notification to the new email address.

The message includes the username of the administrator who made the change.

An administrator's password has been changed. PingFederate generates a notification to the administrator whose password has been changed.

The message includes the username of the administrator who made the change.

Note:

Account management events are only applicable when native authentication is enabled for the administrative console, the administrative API, or both in the <pf_install>/pingfederate/bin/run.properties file. If you are using an alternative console authentication, notifications (if any, such as password changes) are handled by the third-party system.

  1. Go to the System > Administrative Accounts screen.
  2. Select the Notify Administrator of Account Change check box.
    An email address must be provided for the applicable accounts.
  3. Select a notification publisher instance from the list.
    If you have not yet configured the desired notification publisher instance, click Manage Notification Publishers.
  4. Click Save to keep your configuration.