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Don_22992
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Jan 28, 2008

Email notification of node/vs down

I have searched for a while now, and have not found a solution.     Alertd appears to be the method of sending an email alert; how do I tell it a node is down?     Or a custom scripted mon...
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hooleylist
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Jan 28, 2008
Hello,

 

 

First, you'd want to associate a monitor on the pool. Then you need to configure postfix to send mail remotely. And then configure alertd to send email. There are a few related solutions on AskF5 that you can use as a guide for this:

 

 

SOL3667: Configuring SNMP trap alerts to send email notifications

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/3000/600/sol3667.html?sr=392739

 

 

SOL3664: Configuring BIG-IP to deliver locally-generated email messages

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/3000/600/sol3664.html

 

 

And if you want to generate a message based on a custom log event, refer to SOL3727:

 

 

SOL3727: Configuring custom SNMP traps

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/3000/700/sol3727.html

 

 

Aaron