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stereo_111948
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Feb 20, 2015

Simplifying the editing of alert.conf on multiple devices

I'm in the process of doing email alert notifications following Sol3667: Configuring alerts to send email notifications.   Instead of editing all alert.conf in several BIG-IP's one by one, is it s...
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nitass
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Feb 21, 2015

what i mean is to configure /config/user_alert.conf instead of editing /etc/alertd/alert.conf. i understand if alert name is identical, configuration in user_alert.conf takes precedence.

.1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.4.0.10 is configured in alert.conf but .1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.4.0.100 is set in user_alert.conf.

[root@ve11d:Active:Changes Pending] config  grep -A 2 BIGIP_MCPD_MCPDERR_POOL_MEMBER_MON_STATUS\ { /etc/alertd/alert.conf
alert BIGIP_MCPD_MCPDERR_POOL_MEMBER_MON_STATUS {
        snmptrap OID=".1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.4.0.10"
}
[root@ve11d:Active:Changes Pending] config  cat /config/user_alert.conf
alert BIGIP_MCPD_MCPDERR_POOL_MEMBER_MON_STATUS {
        snmptrap OID=".1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.4.0.100"
}

trap sends .1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.4.0.100.

[root@ve11d:Active:Changes Pending] config  tcpdump -nni eth0 -s0 -X udp port 162
tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode
listening on eth0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 65535 bytes
21:24:01.926783 IP 172.28.24.225.37050 > 172.28.24.1.162:  V2Trap(236)  .1.3.6.1.2.1.1.3.0=162397030 .1.3.6.1.6.3.1.1.4.1.0=.1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.4.0.100 .1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.4.1.1="Pool /Common/foo member /Common/200.200.200.101:80 monitor status down. [ /Common/fake: down ]  [ was unchecked for 0hr:0min:12sec ]" .1.3.6.1.6.3.1.1.4.3.0=.1.3.6.1.4.1.3375.2.4
        0x0000:  4500 0119 0000 4000 4011 b0b9 ac1c 18e1  E.....@.@.......
        0x0010:  ac1c 1801 90ba 00a2 0105 8a31 3081 fa02  ...........10...
        0x0020:  0101 0406 7075 626c 6963 a781 ec02 046b  ....public.....k
        0x0030:  aab9 aa02 0100 0201 0030 81dd 3010 0608  .........0..0...
        0x0040:  2b06 0102 0101 0300 4304 09ad fb66 3019  +.......C....f0.
        0x0050:  060a 2b06 0106 0301 0104 0100 060b 2b06  ..+...........+.
        0x0060:  0104 019a 2f02 0400 6430 8194 060b 2b06  ..../...d0....+.
        0x0070:  0104 019a 2f02 0401 0104 8184 506f 6f6c  ..../.......Pool
        0x0080:  202f 436f 6d6d 6f6e 2f66 6f6f 206d 656d  ./Common/foo.mem
        0x0090:  6265 7220 2f43 6f6d 6d6f 6e2f 3230 302e  ber./Common/200.
        0x00a0:  3230 302e 3230 302e 3130 313a 3830 206d  200.200.101:80.m
        0x00b0:  6f6e 6974 6f72 2073 7461 7475 7320 646f  onitor.status.do
        0x00c0:  776e 2e20 5b20 2f43 6f6d 6d6f 6e2f 6661  wn..[./Common/fa
        0x00d0:  6b65 3a20 646f 776e 205d 2020 5b20 7761  ke:.down.]..[.wa
        0x00e0:  7320 756e 6368 6563 6b65 6420 666f 7220  s.unchecked.for.
        0x00f0:  3068 723a 306d 696e 3a31 3273 6563 205d  0hr:0min:12sec.]
        0x0100:  3017 060a 2b06 0106 0301 0104 0300 0609  0...+...........
        0x0110:  2b06 0104 019a 2f02 04                   +...../..