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jay_41157
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Aug 26, 2008

email alerts from f5 itself...

Hi,

 

 

We use snmp alerts for vs's pools etc, by modifying the user_alert.conf file...

 

 

 

Is there a way to setup the F5 device for sending the emails by itself ? and not have to use a mail relay outside of itself ?

 

 

I am trying to see if there would be a way to get alerts if our email system was down... and we wanted to send alerts to an external email from the f5.

 

 

 

Thanks
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  • hoolio's avatar
    hoolio
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    Aug 28, 2008
    I don't think it's officially supported, but you should be able to configure Postfix to send mail directly rather than relay it per the AskF5 solutions. You might consider contacting F5 Support to check if this is something they'd help with. Else, standard Postfix docs should provide a good start.

     

     

    Aaron
  • Hamish's avatar
    Hamish
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    Aug 29, 2008
    Hmm... The only config really required for postfix to relay via a smart relay is to add the relayhost in (It can workout myhostname etc itself). So by default your postfix install on the LTM SHOULD be able of sending email direct to destination.... This assumes you have DNS resolving configured of course.

     

     

    I don't recall seeing anything in the postfix config that would stop it from doing so... Try it by sending an email from the command line and then checking the postfix output in /var/log/maillog. (You may have to bump up the log level in syslog-ng.conf though from notice..emerg to info..emerg) before you get anything really meaningful except errors.

     

     

    H