Hello Adrien,
currently Im using the rev.4584 and I get alerts when a host is down, the related lines in my config.php are the following:
$config['alerts']['email']['enable'] = TRUE;
$config['alerts']['email']['default'] = "mymail@mydomain.con";
As you can see, I didnt specified anything about the SMTP server and other settings because Im using the Observium server itself for sending emails (this is a test environment).
Im not totally sure but it seems to me that the send an email when a host is down feature is different from the alerting module (http://www.observium.org/wiki/Alerting).
Of course, the official developers can improve my answer!
Kind Regards,
Stefano
From: observium [mailto:observium-bounces@observium.org] On Behalf Of BERTRAND Adrien [BPCE Assurances] Sent: mercoledì 9 ottobre 2013 15.45 To: observium@observium.org Subject: [Observium] Mailing alert for hosts down
Good afternoon everyone,
Im a security administrator from a French insurance company and me and my collegues are interested in your powerful monitoring tool. Ive tested it recently and was amazed by the pretty easy installation of such an intuitive software :-) Ive also discovered your splitting editions and your intentions for the future and agree with that. The pricing is correct in front of all the work you (all the devs) have done.
The only things I would to know to convince my chief that its the tool we need, is : do you have a roadmap for the alerting module ? Because, if Ive correctly understood, you have done a successful Kickstarter campaign to implement the alerting module, but from my last tests (one of the last free SVN edition, something like r4400) the alerting module wasnt really enabled, even after changing the config.php and setting the mailing alerts (with the right SMTP relay, recipient, etc ).
Another question is, when (or how if Ive done it wrong ) do you plan to enable mail alerts for hosts down ?
I didnt search in all your archives (only the last months) but Im sorry if the questions was already asked and Im sorry for my rough English
Thank you in advance for your answer(s),
Adrien Bertrand
Information security administrator
BPCE Assurances