Settings
System Settings can be accessed in the Settings page located in the System main menu item. The majority of these items are read-only and are changed elsewhere in the system, however the various settings are consolidated here so you can get a good overview of all.
The main exceptions to this are the email settings and the auto-submission time settings, which are viewed and edited via this page.
General Settings
The general settings portion of the page takes various settings from all areas of SCS and displays them in a grid. The first column is the source area for the given setting, if you wish to change the setting then this would be a clue as to where you should go to access it. The next column is the setting name itself followed by the last column which is the settings current value.
Obviously not all configuration items and settings are displayed here, only the most relevant ones. Some of these are not meant to be modified and are simply so you are aware of their value (the SCS version number for example).
The one setting you are most likely to change here is email. At the bottom of the page you will see a link which will direct you to a page allowing you to update the email settings for the entire SCS system.
The first email setting you are presented with allows you to specify which outbound SMTP mail host you wish to use. If you have a ship or shore based server enter it here, if you use a cloud provider such as GMAIL consult them for what values to use.
The next value is the port to use - 587, 465 and 25 are common values to find here.
Unless you have an anonymous email server set as your host you will most likely need to supply credentials to send email. In this section you can provide those credentials.
If you are a NOAA ship you should be issued an email app token by SEG.
If you are NOT a large NOAA ship you can enter a username and password to use when connecting to the SMTP host and sending email.
Note these are your email credentials, not your computer/AD credentials. If you are using 2 factor authentication for your email server you may need to create application specific passwords for SCS. Consult with your vendor for more information.
SCS will attempt to send emails immediately, however should that fail for whatever reason (bandwidth, etc) the email will be saved to disk and continually tried again until it goes through. This is the folder those emails will be saved to pending send.
Emails serialized to disk are encrypted, even if you are able to access this folder you cannot view or change the emails awaiting to be sent.
Do not forget to apply your changes for them to take effect!
See also: App Passwords in Gmail (general information)
See also: Creating App Passwords in Gmail
Submission Settings
If you have the daily submission modules enabled you can control when they fire off their packages. It is a good idea to keep these somewhat temporally spread so they are not all clogging up the system resources at the same time.
