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17.3. Parameters for Event Notifications in ovirt-engine-notifier.conf

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

Table 17.1. ovirt-engine-notifier.conf variables

Variable NameDefaultRemarks

SENSITIVE_KEYS

none

A comma-separated list of keys that will not be logged.

JBOSS_HOME

/opt/rh/eap7/root/usr/share/wildfly

The location of the JBoss application server used by the Manager.

ENGINE_ETC

/etc/ovirt-engine

The location of the etc directory used by the Manager.

ENGINE_LOG

/var/log/ovirt-engine

The location of the logs directory used by the Manager.

ENGINE_USR

/usr/share/ovirt-engine

The location of the usr directory used by the Manager.

ENGINE_JAVA_MODULEPATH

${ENGINE_USR}/modules

The file path to which the JBoss modules are appended.

NOTIFIER_DEBUG_ADDRESS

none

The address of a machine that can be used to perform remote debugging of the Java virtual machine that the notifier uses.

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.

IDLE_INTERVAL

30

The interval, in seconds, between which low-priority tasks will be performed.

DAYS_TO_KEEP_HISTORY

0

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.

FAILED_QUERIES_NOTIFICATION_THRESHOLD

30

The number of failed queries after which a notification email is sent. A notification email is sent after the first failure to fetch notifications, and then once every time the number of failures specified by this variable is reached. If you specify a value of 0 or 1, an email will be sent with each failure.

FAILED_QUERIES_NOTIFICATION_RECIPIENTS

none

The email addresses of the recipients to which notification emails will be sent. Email addresses must be separated by a comma. This entry has been deprecated by the FILTER variable.

DAYS_TO_SEND_ON_STARTUP

0

The number of days of old events that will be processed and sent when the notifier starts.

FILTER

exclude:*

The algorithm used to determine the triggers for and recipients of email notifications. The value for this variable comprises a combination of include or exclude, the event, and the recipient. For example, include:VDC_START(smtp:mail@example.com) ${FILTER}

MAIL_SERVER

none

The SMTP mail server address. Required.

MAIL_PORT

25

The port used for communication. Possible values include 25 for plain SMTP, 465 for SMTP with SSL, and 587 for SMTP with TLS.

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.

SENSITIVE_KEYS

${SENSITIVE_KEYS},MAIL_PASSWORD

Required to authenticate the user if the mail server requires authentication or if SSL or TLS is enabled.

MAIL_PASSWORD

none

Required to authenticate the user if the mail server requires authentication or if SSL or TLS is enabled.

MAIL_SMTP_ENCRYPTION

none

The type of encryption to be used in communication. Possible values are none, ssl, tls.

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 sender 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.

MAIL_SEND_INTERVAL

1

The number of SMTP messages to be sent for each IDLE_INTERVAL

MAIL_RETRIES

4

The number of times to attempt to send an email before failing.

SNMP_MANAGER

none

The IP addresses or fully qualified domain names of machines that will act as the SNMP managers. Entries must be separated by a space and can contain a port number. For example, manager1.example.com manager2.example.com:164

SNMP_COMMUNITY

public

The default SNMP community.

SNMP_OID

1.3.6.1.4.1.2312.13.1.1

The default trap object identifiers for alerts. All trap types are sent, appended with event information, to the SNMP manager when this OID is defined. Note that changing the default trap prevents generated traps from complying with the Manager’s management information base.

ENGINE_INTERVAL_IN_SECONDS

300

The interval, in seconds, between monitoring the machine on which the Manager is installed. The interval is measured from the time the monitoring is complete.

ENGINE_MONITOR_RETRIES

3

The number of times the notifier attempts to monitor the status of the machine on which the Manager is installed in a given interval after a failure.

ENGINE_TIMEOUT_IN_SECONDS

30

The time, in seconds, to wait before the notifier attempts to monitor the status of the machine on which the Manager is installed in a given interval after a failure.

IS_HTTPS_PROTOCOL

false

This entry must be set to true if JBoss is being run in secured mode.

SSL_PROTOCOL

TLS

The protocol used by JBoss configuration connector when SSL is enabled.

SSL_IGNORE_CERTIFICATE_ERRORS

false

This value must be set to true if JBoss is running in secure mode and SSL errors is to be ignored.

SSL_IGNORE_HOST_VERIFICATION

false

This value must be set to true if JBoss is running in secure mode and host name verification is to be ignored.

REPEAT_NON_RESPONSIVE_NOTIFICATION

false

This variable specifies whether repeated failure messages will be sent to subscribers if the machine on which the Manager is installed is non-responsive.

ENGINE_PID

/var/lib/ovirt-engine/ovirt-engine.pid

The path and file name of the PID of the Manager.