Good evening all,

After much trial and error, I’ve been unsuccessful in implementing a simple up/down device alert within Observium.

As I searched around the web for a solution, It seemed as though this hasn’t been much of an issue for most users.

Here’s some additional documentation I followed to try and fix it myself:

http://www.maartenmoerman.nl/?p=612 (Nice work on this one)

https://www.mail-archive.com/observium@observium.org/msg05915.html

http://www.observium.org/wiki/FAQ

http://www.observium.org/wiki/Creating_an_Alert_Checker

I’m starting think that my configuration file (config.php) could have something to do with it. I’ve included it, along with multiple snip-its to try and assist you in seeing my work.

If anyone has any suggestions on this, they would be greatly appreciated. I’ve been working on this on and off for the past few days now, and I’ve had no success in generating an offline alert. The alert log shows the test as failed, but delayed. It never actually send out an e-mail. My apologies in advance, if this turns out to be user error.

Thanks in advance for any time put into this. If there is anything else I can provide to further assist in troubleshooting, please let me know.

I’d be more than happy to provide it.

Omitted config.php:

…

// Enable alerter

$config['poller-wrapper']['alerter'] = TRUE;

// Disable page refresh

$config['page_refresh'] = "300"; ## Refresh the page every xx seconds

// Set up a default alerter (email to a single address)

$config['email']['default'] = "nate.mellendorf@netgainhosting.com";

$config['alerts']['email']['from'] = "observium@netgainhosting.com";

$config['email']['default_only'] = TRUE;

$config['email']['enable'] = TRUE; // Disables OLD alerting system

$config['alerts']['interval'] = 310;

…

Sensitive information has been omitted.

The alert I’ve configured: (image)

Here is what I see when I’ve review the alert: (image)

Here’s the alert log that’s generated: (image)

(As you can see, the alert is triggered but delayed.)

Finally, here is what’s found when I review the logs of an offline device: (image)

Thanks again everyone,

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