[ovirt-users] Upgrade to 3.5.3 fails on ovirt-engine-notifier service

Martin Perina mperina at redhat.com
Mon Jun 22 15:52:45 EDT 2015


Hi,

it's mentioned in [2] in section Detailed description [3], but I agree
it could be made more visible :-(

Also in RHEV 3.5 doc it's mentioned in [4], but again I agree it could be
more visible.

Martin

[3] http://www.ovirt.org/Features/configuration-event-subscribers#Detailed_Description
[4] https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.5/html/Administration_Guide/Configuring_the_Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization_Manager_to_Send_SNMP_Traps.html


----- Original Message -----
> From: "Trey Dockendorf" <treydock at gmail.com>
> To: "Martin Perina" <mperina at redhat.com>
> Cc: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 9:42:25 PM
> Subject: Re: [ovirt-users] Upgrade to 3.5.3 fails on ovirt-engine-notifier service
> 
> I thought using /usr/share/ovirt-engine was wrong, but I was going off of
> RedHat docs [1].  I didn't realize an alternative location existed.
> 
> Having just searched some more I found the oVirt docs [2] which I don't
> recall existing or mentioning the conf.d at the time I setup the notifier
> service.
> 
> Thanks,
> - Trey
> 
> [1]:
> https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Virtualization/3.4/html/Administration_Guide/Parameters_for_event_notifications_in_notifier.conf1.html
> [2]: http://www.ovirt.org/Features/configuration-event-subscribers
> 
> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 2:38 PM, Martin Perina <mperina at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > please never change anything in /usr/share/ovirt-engine, because these file
> > will always be overwritten on RPM upgrades.
> >
> > To change MAIL_SERVER for ovirt-engine-notifier please create config file
> > (for example 99-user.conf) under /etc/ovirt-engine/notifier/notifier.conf.d
> > and put you customizations here, for example:
> >
> >   MAIL_SERVER=my-mail-server.com
> >
> > This way your changes survive upgrades.
> >
> > Let me know if you have any other issues with it.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Martin Perina
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "Trey Dockendorf" <treydock at gmail.com>
> > > To: "users" <users at ovirt.org>
> > > Sent: Monday, June 22, 2015 7:09:57 PM
> > > Subject: [ovirt-users] Upgrade to 3.5.3 fails on ovirt-engine-notifier
> >       service
> > >
> > > I just upgraded from 3.5.1 to 3.5.3 and found the end of engine-setup
> > failed
> > > because of the ovirt-engine-notifier service. The logs indicate that the
> > > MAIL_SERVER option was not set. I had set this before via Puppet and
> > know it
> > > was working because right before I started the upgrade I was receiving
> > event
> > > notifications. It appears as though the RPM (or some other mechanism) set
> > > the config file at
> > >
> > /usr/share/ovirt-engine/services/ovirt-engine-notifier/ovirt-engine-notifier.conf
> > > back to its original state with my changes removed.
> > >
> > > Attached is the log from engine-setup.
> > >
> > > Is this a bug? I was able to work around this by manually setting
> > MAIL_SERVER
> > > back to the value I had already set previously and then re-running
> > > engine-setup. Even after re-running engine-setup I noticed I had to
> > manually
> > > start ovirt-engine-notifier service.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > - Trey
> > >
> > > _______________________________________________
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> > > http://lists.ovirt.org/mailman/listinfo/users
> > >
> >
> 


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