[ovirt-users] Cannot change notification settings for hosted engine in ovirt 4.0

[George Chlipala]

Thanks for the information.


George Chlipala, Ph.D.
Senior Research Specialist
Research Resources Center
University of Illinois at Chicago

phone: 312-413-1700
email: gchlip2 at uic.edu

On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 3:44 AM, Simone Tiraboschi <stirabos at redhat.com>
wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Nov 18, 2016 at 10:04 AM, Martin Sivak <msivak at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi George,
>>
>> unfortunately this was overlooked when the configuration file was
>> moved to the shared storage. We are currently working on a solution
>> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301681)
>>
>> There is a workaround if you are using the default configuration (smtp
>> set to localhost). You can add a forwarding rule to the /etc/aliases
>> file in the form "root: my at emails.com" and execute newaliases (to
>> update the configuration).
>>
>> See for example
>> https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/10654/how-to-use-e
>> tcaliases-file-and-forward-file-for-a-user-at-same-time-using-sendmail/
>>
>> Unfortunately, we do not have any workaround for non-local SMTP or
>> notification filtering settings.
>>
>>
> We have a workaround described here:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1301681#c16
>
> It will replace the configuration file on the shared storage as needed.
> Please ensure you have a valid backup of the configuration volume before
> touching it.
>
>
>> Regards
>>
>> --
>> Martin Sivak
>> SLA / oVirt
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 15, 2016 at 5:43 PM, George Chlipala <gchlip2 at uic.edu> wrote:
>> > I cannot seem to find any information on how to change the notification
>> > settings, in particular the email adresses to which to send
>> notifications
>> > and the from address for the notifications.  I have tried adding a file
>> on
>> > the engine itself in /etc/ovirt-engine/notifier/notifier.conf.d/ and
>> setting
>> > MAIL_FROM.  I then restarted the ovirt-engine service, but notices are
>> still
>> > using the old configuration.  I even tried restarting the VM, but that
>> did
>> > not have any effect.  I have also tried editing
>> > /var/lib/ovirt-hosted-engine-ha/broker.conf however when I restart the
>> > ovirt-ha-broker service, the file is overwritten.
>> >
>> > I have found documentation about the shared configuration storage
>> > (http://www.ovirt.org/develop/release-management/features/ho
>> sted-engine-configuration-on-shared-storage/),
>> > however it is not clear to me where I would edit existing data in the
>> shared
>> > storage.  Do I just untar the files, edit, then "retar" to the shared
>> > storage?  Do I need to set maintenance mode before editing? Should I
>> > shutdown the engine?  After I edit the files, do I just restart the
>> > ovirt-ha-broker service or do I need to do something else?
>> >
>> > Any help in this matter would be greatly appreciated.
>> >
>> > Thanks!
>> >
>> > - George Chlipala
>> >
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