16.2. Parameters for Event Notifications in notifier.conf

The event notifier configuration file can be found in /usr/share/ovirt-engine/services/ovirt-engine-notifier/ovirt-engine-notifier.conf.

Table 16.1. notifier.conf variables

Variable name Default Remarks
SENSITIVE_KEYS none A comma-separated list of keys that will not be logged.
JBOSS_HOME /usr/share/jbossas The location of the application server used by the engine.
ENGINE_ETC /etc/ovirt-engine The location of the etc directory used by the engine.
ENGINE_LOG /var/log/ovirt-engine The location of the logs directory used by the engine.
ENGINE_USR /usr/share/ovirt-engine The location of the usr directory used by the engine.
NOTIFIER_STOP_TIME 30 The time, in seconds, after which the service will time out.
NOTIFIER_STOP_INTERVAL 1 The time, in seconds, by which the timeout counter will be incremented.
INTERVAL_IN_SECONDS 120 The interval in seconds between instances of dispatching messages to subscribers.
MAIL_SERVER none The SMTP mail server address. Required.
MAIL_PORT 25 The default port of a non-secured SMTP server is 25. The default port of a secured SMTP server (one with SSL enabled) is 465.
MAIL_USER none If SSL is enabled to authenticate the user, then this variable must be set. This variable is also used to specify the "from" user address when the MAIL_FROM variable is not set. Some mail servers do not support this functionality. The address is in RFC822 format.
MAIL_PASSWORD none This variable is required to authenticate the user if the mail server requires authentication or if SSL is enabled.
MAIL_ENABLE_SSL false This indicates whether SSL should be used to communicate with the mail server.
HTML_MESSAGE_FORMAT false The mail server sends messages in HTML format if this variable is set to "true".
MAIL_FROM none This variable specifies a "from" address in RFC822 format, if supported by the mail server.
MAIL_REPLY_TO none This variable specifies "reply-to" addresses in RFC822 format on sent mail, if supported by the mail server.
DAYS_TO_KEEP_HISTORY none This variable sets the number of days dispatched events will be preserved in the history table. If this variable is not set, events remain on the history table indefinitely.
DAYS_TO_SEND_ON_STARTUP 0 The number of days of old events that will be processed and sent when the notifier starts.