Hi Anton,
Welcome to the community.
The documentation has changed on the Observium website as Adam is making significant changes (or has) to alerts.
If you are in the subscription version it might be different than the community version. The community version right now is using legacy alerts.
// Enable alerter
$config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE;
// Set up a default alerter (email to a single address)
$config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['descr'] = "Default Email Alert";
$config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['type'] = "email";
$config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['contact'] = "ITObserviumNotify@purafilter2000.com";
$config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['enable'] = TRUE;
See defaults.inc.php for settings for email.
If your still having issues you might want to have a look at alerts.php.
$config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE;
All of this should be in the opt/observium directory
If you have the subscription version of Observium:
http://observium.com/wiki/Alerting
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Sincerely,
Joshua Hopper, A+ CE
Network Administrator
420 3rd Ave NW Hickory NC 28601
Office: 828-449-1839x2160 | Cell: 828-855-7565
From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of tech8.otelafrica
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2014 6:52 AM
To: Observium Network Observation System
Subject: [Observium] Mailing alert system
Hey guys,
Could you assist as to how we can set up alerts. I pretty much want the system to send an email when a device goes down.
How would I go about setting this up?
Regards
Anton