Package update notifs not working

[konstanz]

Hi, I'm having issues with the notification system. "package-updates" is enabled with match severity of "info" but I am not getting email notifications. The notification target is SMTP and notifs for backup jobs work. (no subscription)

Would appreciate any help.

Thanks.

 

[Lukas Wagner]

Hello,

could you share your /etc/pve/notifications.cfg?

Thanks!

 

[konstanz]

Hello,

could you share your /etc/pve/notifications.cfg?

Thanks!

Hi,

Here you go:

smtp: smtp
    from-address noreply@domain.tld
    mailto user@domain.tld
    mailto-user root@pam
    mode tls
    port 465
    server smtp.server
    username smtpusername

matcher: backups
    match-field exact:type=vzdump
    match-severity error
    mode all
    target smtp

matcher: package-updates
    comment package updates
    match-field exact:type=package-updates
    match-severity info
    mode all
    target smtp

Thanks.

 

[fiona]

Hi,
do you have the notify setting in your /etc/pve/datacenter.cfg set properly? See man 5 datacenter.cfg for details.

 

[Lukas Wagner]

Thanks for bringing my attention to this issue, there indeed exists a small bug regarding package update notifications that happened during the transition between the old and the new notification system.

Seems like package update notifications are still affected by the old configuration key in /etc/pve/datacenter.cfg . During the migration to the new notification system, the GUI to manipulate this setting was removed, but the key is still used when deciding whether to send a notification at all.
For now, you can enable the update notifications using the following command:

pvesh set /cluster/options --notify package-updates=always

 

[konstanz]

Hi,
do you have the notify setting in your /etc/pve/datacenter.cfg set properly? See man 5 datacenter.cfg for details.

No I do not. Since this is a fresh install with the new notifications system, I used that one from the beginning. It seems I have to still use the datacenter.cfg file though, thanks!

Thanks for bringing my attention to this issue, there indeed exists a small bug regarding package update notifications that happened during the transition between the old and the new notification system.

Seems like package update notifications are still affected by the old configuration key in /etc/pve/datacenter.cfg . During the migration to the new notification system, the GUI to manipulate this setting was removed, but the key is still used when deciding whether to send a notification at all.
For now, you can enable the update notifications using the following command:

pvesh set /cluster/options --notify package-updates=always

OK, thank you!

 

[encryptedserver]

I have the same problem with gotify. I used the command above and see if it works.

 

[gfngfn256]

I have the same problem with gotify. I used the command above and see if it works.

Did it work?

 

[encryptedserver]

Yes, it worked

 

[acodoner]

Hello,

Is there an equivalent command to pvesh in Proxmox Backup Server? Notifications for package updates doesn't work either.

Thank you

 

[sw-omit]

Hello,

Is there an equivalent command to pvesh in Proxmox Backup Server? Notifications for package updates doesn't work either.

Thank you

I can't help you directly with this command, but one question/tip:
Does your PBS-Installation have an active subscription?
As it says in the documentation [1], and is similarly so for PVE, only when the installation has a subscription and is deemed production-ready, will it send out notifications (by default/without changing things).

[1] https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/notifications.html#notification-events

 

[acodoner]

I can't help you directly with this command, but one question/tip:
Does your PBS-Installation have an active subscription?
As it says in the documentation [1], and is similarly so for PVE, only when the installation has a subscription and is deemed production-ready, will it send out notifications (by default/without changing things).

[1] https://pbs.proxmox.com/docs/notifications.html#notification-events

Thank you for your answer,

No, I do not have an active subscription for PBS at the moment. As stated in the documentation:

"The daily task checking for any available system updates only sends notifications if the node has an active subscription."

 

[sw-omit]

Yeah, as the link shows, only update notifications are blocked.
This is probably to prevent a daily spam of update-mails, because of being in the quick(er) release-channel, which I think is quite reasonable.