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Cirrus

Dec 11, 2014

I am getting 2 to 3 emails alerts on 1 pool member down.

I have configured custom alerts on pool member down. I have configured them for each pool separately. The problem is that I get 2 sometime 3 emails for 1 pool member down. This is because mails are g...

nitass

Employee

Dec 13, 2014

what version are you running? to change from address, FromLineOverride has to be set to yes. however, starting from 11.5.0, /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf is automatically generated. whatever modification will be gone after reboot unless you modify template file, /usr/share/defaults/config/templates/ssmtp.tmpl, but it may not be officially supported by f5 support team. there is no tmsh command available. ID465700 is filed but it is not implemented yet (as of now).

ID465700 Allow to configure SMTP RewriteDomain and FromLineOverride fields

this is notification email when manually setting FromLineOverride to yes.

sol13180: Configuring the BIG-IP system to deliver locally-generated email messages (11.x)

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/100/sol13180.html

From: f5admin@mobilink.net [mailto:f5admin@mobilink.net] 
Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2014 5:01 PM
To: Nitass
Subject: 01070638:5: Pool /Common/foo member /Common/8.8.8.8:53 monitor status down. [ /Common/fake: down ] [ was unchecked for 0hr:6mins:31sec ]

test

Muhammad_Irfan1
Cirrus
Dec 14, 2014
11.4.1 and FromLineOverride = Yes is uncommented as well in smtp.conf. I have custom alerts set in alert_config and fromaddress is f5admin@mobilink.net. But still get emails notifications from root[hostname of LB]
nitass
Employee
Dec 14, 2014
can you run tcpdump on bigip to check?