2.12 Novell Remote Manager (NRM)

2.12.1 NRM Email Notification System Does Not Work; or Cannot Send NCP Inventory and Trustee Reports

After you install or upgrade to OES 11 SP3, the Novell Remote Manager email notification system does not work. For the NCP Server plug-in Manage NCP Services, the Send option in the Email Report column does not work on the NCP Inventory Reports page and the NCP Trustee Reports page.

The Novell Remote Manager email notification system is obsoleted in OES 11 SP3. For health monitoring, it is replaced by the Nagios alert notification system, which is used to send alerts from the Ganglia and Nagios health monitoring tools. After you install or upgrade to OES 11 SP3, the Novell Remote Manager email notification system is not available. The commands mailserver and mailto are not found in the HTTPSTKD configuration file (/etc/opt/novell/httpstkd.conf) for a new install, and they are no longer supported after an upgrade.

Other functions or plug-ins that leveraged the HTTPSTKD email notification commands do not work with the Nagios alert notification system. Thus, they do not work in OES 11 SP3. This issue will be addressed in a future release.

In order to receive health monitoring alerts from Ganglia and Nagios, you must configure Nagios and its alert notification system. You must set up an email address for the nagiosadmin user. You can define other Nagios contacts. You can set up various notification methods for each Nagios contact, and assign the contacts to receive notifications for designated monitored services. For more information, see Configuring Nagios and Configuring Nagios Notification System for Contacts in the OES 11 SP3: Novell Remote Manager Administration Guide.