Email notification - AWS Elemental Conductor Live

Email notification

You can configure AWS Elemental Conductor Live to email you notifications when alerts occur.

Note

Don't configure worker nodes to send email notifications. Conductor Live sends operational status for all nodes in the cluster and all transcoding channels.

Conductor Live uses open relay to send email notifications. Before subscribing to notifications, make sure that your network allows receipt of open relay email. If your network doesn't allow open relay messages, you must also configure a Sendmail relay server with another mail server.

Important

If you subscribe to email notifications in a network that doesn't allow open relay messages and you do not relay the messages, the generated messages will collect on the Conductor Live system hard drive, eventually filling the partition and causing disk alert errors.

To set up email notifications
  1. On the Conductor Live web interface, subscribe to all or some alerts using the steps described here:

    Subscribe to all alerts
    1. On the Conductor Live web interface, go to the Settings page and make sure that you're on the General tab.

    2. Complete the Global Alert Notification fields as described in the following table and choose Update:

      Field Instructions
      Email Enter the email address of the alert recipient.

      Required if you don't provide a URL in the Web Callback URL field.

      Web Callback URL If you want to receive web server notifications too, enter the URL of the appropriate .php file on your web server.

      For instructions on how to configure your web server for notifications, see Web callback notification.

      Notify Select when you want to be notified, either when the alert is raised or when it's cleared. You can choose both options.
    Subscribe to individual alerts
    1. On the Conductor Live web interface, go to the Stats page and choose Notifications.

    2. On the Notifications page, find the alert that you want to be notified on and choose the plus sign (+) to expand it.

    3. Complete the fields as described in the following table and choose Save.

      Field Instructions
      Email Enter the email address of the alert recipient.

      Required if you don't provide a URL in the Web Callback URL field.

      Web Callback URL If you want to receive web server notifications too, enter the URL of the appropriate .php file on your web server.

      For instructions on how to configure your web server for notifications, see Web callback notification.

      Notify Select when you want to be notified, either when the alert is raised or when it's cleared. You can choose both options.
    4. For each alert that you want to be notified on, find the alert, then expand and complete the fields.

  2. If your network doesn't allow open relay messages, configure the sendmail server to relay the messages. For steps, see Configure sendmail relay server.