# Managing Notifications

> Source: https://parallelworks.com/docs/account-settings/managing-notifications

# Managing Notifications 

The ACTIVATE control plane includes a customizable notification system for both our web interface and your ACTIVATE-linked email address.

Navigate to your account settings (**Username** > **Account**).

![Screenshot of the user selecting Account from the username menu.](/content-images/docs/account-settings/managing-notifications/click-account.png)

In **Profile Settings**, click **Notifications**. 

![Screenshot of the user selecting the Notification Hub.](/content-images/docs/account-settings/managing-notifications/click-notifications.png)

Here, you can manage past notifications as well as configure your notification settings.  

![Screenshot of the Notifications tab.](/content-images/docs/account-settings/managing-notifications/default-notifications-view.png)

You can also reach the **Notification Hub** by clicking the bell icon  in the navigation bar, then clicking **Show More**.

## Changing Notification Settings

Scroll down to the **Manage notifications** section.  

![Screenshot of the Manage notifications section.](/content-images/docs/account-settings/managing-notifications/manage-notifications-default.png)

You can select how you would like to receive your notifications here. **Web** notifications appear under the bell icon  and in the **Notification Hub** on the ACTIVATE control plane. **Email** notifications are sent directly to your ACTIVATE-linked email address. 

By default, all options for **Workflow**, **Scheduler**, and **Platform** notifications are enabled as **Web** notifications. Click the checkboxes for **Web** and **Email** to enable or disable notifications. 

For more customized settings, you can click a notification type and enable or disable its sub-types.

![Screenshot of the expanded notifcation options.](/content-images/docs/account-settings/managing-notifications/manage-notifications-expanded.png)

When you’re done, click **Save notification settings**.

## About Notification Types

Our notification system includes the types outlined below. 

- Workflows
    - **Job Fail**: If a workflow fails during start-up or run-time, this notification will be triggered.
    - **Ready Interactive Workflow**: Because interactive workflows can have longer start-up times, we’ve included this notification to send when an interactive session is ready to use.
- Scheduler
    - **Job Start/Finish**: Job status notifications will be sent from the scheduler’s prolog and epilog scripts. This method requires no cluster side user action, and will send notifications about your jobs when selected.
    - **—mail-type**: This notification uses the Slurm flag `--mail-type`, which is set by the user on the cluster in order to send notifications when certain events occur. This method requires users to enter the `--mail-type` flag when calling `salloc`, `sbatch`, `srun`, or in their job scripts. For more information about these Slurm commands, please see [**Submitting Jobs via Slurm**](/docs/compute/submitting-jobs#notification-management).
- Platform
    - **General Notification**: These notifications include cluster start-up messages and run-time errors.