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David_Dennison
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Apr 10, 2008

Monitoring Pool Member Status and Emailing Alerts...

  We recently purchased 4 new Bigip's. We will be migrating all our services over to these eventually. Currently on our 4.5.x bigips we use ISM to monitor the status of pool members and send out...
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What_Lies_Bene1
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Jan 02, 2013
With LTM v11, sending emails is pretty simple. Here's a quick rundown;

 

 

To configure email delivery of alerts edit the /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf file and enter the hostname or IP address of a suitable SMTP server as the mailhub= variable value.

 

 

Use something like the following command to test your configuration: echo "BIG-IP test mail via ssmtp" | mail -vs "BIG-IP test mail via ssmtp" email@example.com

 

 

To configure which events result in an alert email, as well as custom SNMP traps, edit the /config/user_alert.conf according to http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/3000/600/sol3667.html and http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/3000/700/sol3727.html