Disable Update Notifications

[Fatz]

Hi,

I have some hosts still on Proxmox 7 (7.4-16 to be exact). On those hosts, i could disable the (fairly frequent) notifications from update packages being available by simply editing /etc/pve/datacenter.cfg and adding notify: package-updates=never

However, i have some new hosts running 8.1.3 and when i make these same changes, i'm not sure if it's working. On the old hosts, the change is reflected in the UI under Datacenter > Options > Notify ... in the new hosts, this is not shown.

Did the method to make this change, change in Proxmox 8? The docs seem to reflect it still working in the same way as before.

Many thanks for reading.

 

[Lukas Wagner]

Did the method to make this change, change in Proxmox 8? The docs seem to reflect it still working in the same way as before.

Proxmox VE 8.1 introduced a new system for notifications/notification routing. These can be configured under 'Datacenter > Notifications' - check out the chapter about notifications in our documentation [1]. If you want to disable update notifications, you'd have to modify the default notification matcher (assuming that you have not created other ones) to exclude notifications of type 'package-updates'.

For instance:


Regarding the documentation: You are right, there are still some leftovers from the 'old' system there - thanks for pointing this out! I'll prepare a patch to remove them.


[1] https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#chapter_notifications

 

[Fatz]

Thanks Lukas, i missed that addition.

Cheers!