That's a bug in the config.php.defaults examples. Follow the wiki documentation. -- Cameron Moore
From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of Nicholas Schmidt Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2014 9:28 AM To: Observium Network Observation System Subject: [Observium] Alert Emails
Ive followed the documentation but cannot get email alerting working. I see nothing in my mail log from Observium and other mailings on the system work without issue (RANCID, using the mail command from shell) so I believe it related to something I am doing wrong in Observium or PHP. It also looks as though whats in config.php.default doesn't match whats documented in the wiki. Ill gladly update it once I figure out which is correct.
I am running Observium build 0.14.3.5112 on Debian 5.5.35-0
My config.php based on config.php.defaults , which differs slightly from http://www.observium.org/wiki/Configuration_Options#Alert_Settings
$config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['descr'] = "Network Alert"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['type'] = "email"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['contact'] = "noc@mediamath.commailto:noc@mediamath.com"; $config['alerts']['alerter']['default']['enable'] = TRUE;
-Nick