[ovirt-users] ovirt-event-notifier for e-mail notification

[Yedidyah Bar David]

On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 2:41 PM,  <nicolas at devels.es> wrote:
> El 2016-03-28 12:30, Yedidyah Bar David escribió:
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 1:38 PM,  <nicolas at devels.es> wrote:
>>>
>>> El 2016-03-28 11:23, Yedidyah Bar David escribió:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 1:05 PM,  <nicolas at devels.es> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> On oVirt 3.6.3.4-1, when selecting the 'Event notification' sub-tab on
>>>>> a
>>>>> user in the 'Users' tab, at the bottom this message is shown:
>>>>>
>>>>>    Note: To receive email notifications, ensure that the mail server is
>>>>> configured and the ovirt-event-notifier service is running.
>>>>>
>>>>> I cannot find this service installed anywhere, though. Which package
>>>>> should
>>>>> contain this service?
>>>>>
>>>>> # systemctl status ovirt-event-notifier
>>>>> ovirt-event-notifier.service
>>>>>    Loaded: not-found (Reason: No such file or directory)
>>>>>    Active: inactive (dead)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> This should have found it for you.
>>>>
>>>> Are you trying this on the engine machine?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> # locate ovirt-event-notifier
>>>>> #
>>>>>
>>>>> # yum provides *ovirt-event-notifier
>>>>> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>>>>> [...]
>>>>> No matches found
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> It's packaged in ovirt-engine-tools .
>>>>
>>>
>>> The package is indeed installed, but the service seems not.
>>
>>
>> Can you please try:
>>
>> systemctl list-unit-files | grep ovirt-engine
>>
>
> Ah, that was the problem. It is installed as ovirt-engine-notifier, not as
> ovirt-event-notifier.

OK :-)

Only now I realized you wrote 'ovirt-event-notifier' :-)

> Maybe it was renamed from a previous version? If you
> wish, I can submit a bug so the text in the oVirt admin is renamed.

Please do.

Actually it was never named ovirt-event-notifier. AFAICT this string only
ever existed in this message, probably some simple typo no-one ever noticed
until you did now :-)

It indeed was renamed in the past, though. It's previous name was
'engine-notifierd':

https://gerrit.ovirt.org/14378

Thanks for the report!

>
> Thanks.
>
>
>>>
>>> # rpm -qa | grep engine-tools
>>> ovirt-engine-tools-3.6.3.4-1.el7.centos.noarch
>>>
>>> This is CentOS 7.1.1503, FWIW.
>>
>>
>> Why not 7.2? IIRC it should not matter, but you can try to upgrade.
-- 
Didi