Chapter 10. Alerts and Notifications

Accessing Alerts Drawer

1. To access the Alerts drawer, log in the Web Administration interface. In the default landing interface, locate and click on the interactive bell icon on the header bar at the top right-hand side.

   

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2. The drawer is opened displaying the number of alerts generated.

1. Install tendrl-notifier:

   yum install tendrl-notifier

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2. Open the /etc/tendrl/notifier/notifier.conf.yaml file and update:

   etcd_connection: <FQDN of etcd server>

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   Note

   Ensure to use FQDNs for volumes creation as Web Administration does not support short hostnames. Volumes already created in the Gluster clusters using short names or IP addresses will display inconsistent data in the Web Administration interface.

1. Open the /etc/tendrl/notifier/email.conf.yaml file

2. Update the parameters:

   email_id = <The sender email id>
   
   email_smtp_server = <The smtp server>
   
   email_smtp_port = <The smtp port>

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3. If the SMTP server supports only authenticated email, follow the template in the /etc/tendrl/notifier/email_auth.conf.yaml.sample file and accordingly enable the following:

1. Install tendrl-notifier:

   yum install tendrl-notifier

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2. Open the /etc/tendrl/notifier/notifier.conf.yaml file and update:

   etcd_connection: <FQDN of etcd server>

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   Note

   Ensure to use FQDNs for volumes creation as Web Administration does not support short hostnames. Volumes already created in the Gluster clusters using short names or IP addresses will display inconsistent data in the Web Administration interface.

1. Open the tendrl-notifier configuration file:

   # cat /etc/tendrl/notifier/snmp.conf.yaml

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2. Update the parameters in the file for v3 trap alerts:

   For v3_endpoint:
   # For more hosts you can add more entry with endpoint2, endpoint3, etc
   endpoint1:
   
   # Name or IP address of the remote SNMP host.
           host_ip: <Receiving machine ip>
   # Name of the user on the host that connects to the agent.
           username: <Username of receiver>
   # Enables the agent to receive packets from the host.
           auth_key: <md5 password>
   # The private user password
           priv_key: <des password>
   
   
   # For v2_endpoint:
   
   # For more hosts you can add more entry with endpoint2, endpoint3, etc
   
   endpoint1:
   # Name or IP address of the remote SNMP host.
        host_ip: <Receiving machine ip>
        community: <community name>

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