Before You Publish a Message

After you learn the basic concepts in SMN, you can start to create a topic, add subscriptions to the topic, and publish messages on the SMN console or by calling RESTful APIs provided by SMN.

Message Types

You can publish different formats of messages using SMN.

**Table 1** Message formats
Message Format	Scenarios	Reference
JSON message	Send different message content to different types of subscribers with only one message publishing.	Publishing a JSON Message
Template message	Send messages containing fixed content and variables that can be easily set to desired content.	Publishing a Template Message

Registering with Huawei Cloud

If you have registered with Huawei Cloud, you can log in to the management console and access SMN. Otherwise, register yourself with Huawei Cloud.

Visit huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/.
Click Register in the upper right corner.
The registration page is displayed. Enter required information as prompted. After the registration, the system automatically redirects you to your personal information page.

The account can be used to access the SMN service and all other Huawei Cloud services.

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