This section explains how notifications work in the load balancer. Notifications can be used to send email alerts when an unexpected event is detected.
The notifications page has two tabs: Alerts and Email.
Alert Services
Alert Services allows you to enable or disable notifications whenever a particular service malfunctions or if there is a package update. The are the Alerts services on SKUDONET ADC:
- Backends: Receive email notifications when a backend experiences an outage or restart.
- Cluster: Get notified via email when a cluster-related event occurs.
- License: Receive an alert when the node’s license is nearing expiration.
- Interface: Get notified when any interface experiences a state change.
- Package: Stay informed about pending package updates.
- Certificate: Receive alerts for expiring certificates that are currently in use.
Each alert service has a description, status, and actions.
Description: A brief explanation of what the alert is for.
Status: Whether the alert service is enabled or disabled.
Actions: The actions you can take with the alert service:
- Enable: Activates the alert service and starts sending email notifications.
- Disable: Deactivates the alert service and stops it from sending email notifications.
- Configure: Modifies the alert service configuration.
Email Notifications
In this tab, you can set up the email service that will be used to send you notifications.
This section includes the following fields:
- Mail Server: The SMTP server used to send emails.
- Mail User: The email account or user account allowed to send emails. This is required if the mail server requires SMTP authentication.
- Mail Password: The SMTP server authentication password.
- From: The email account or name that appears as the sender of the email.
- To: The email account where the notifications will be sent. You can specify multiple email addresses, separated by commas.
- Enable TLS: Whether to enable or disable a secure TLS connection to send the emails.
Next Article: System | Notifications | Configure Alerts
