People with email alerts enabled...

How do you manage it? When we do mainteance, we have to go through the following procedure:

 

SSH into both BIGIPs

 

postfix abort (to stop postfix)

 

Do our maintenacne to pool members

 

Execute cd /var/spool/postfix/maildrop

 

Execute rm -f * to clean up the alerts

 

Execute postfix start

 

 

This is kind of cumbersome and it would of course be nice if you could do this with 1 click in the BIGIP gui. This is by far the best method to ensure that we dont get flooded with alerts once we re-enable postfix that we have found. We also played around with disabling alertd, but once re-enabled we still got flooded with alerts. It seems no matter what, you have to cleanup the maildrop directory.

 

 

Is there a better way to do it? I am working on a once click option for all this, but didnt want to re-invent the wheel.