Smarts SAM: When would you need more than one Smarts SAM mail notifier?; How to configure two mail notifiers

Products

• VMware

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

When would you need more than one Smarts SAM mail notifier?
How to configure two Smarts SAM mail notifiers

More than one Smarts SAM notifer needs to be configured in envirronments where one notifier sends mail to the normal receipents and second to a gateway. In this environment, you would need a second Smarts SAM mail notifier.

To support this configuration, do the following:

1. Create a second instance of mail-notify.conf such as mail-notify2.conf
2. Configure two mail notifiers in the Smarts /notifier directory (BASEDIR/smarts/conf/notifier). 
3. In the sm_notify parameters, create a second --conf entry with the following syntax (see Note statement):
   
   --conf[=<conf_file>
   
   
   Example
   --conf[=mail-notify2.conf
   
    
4. Start two the notifiers with the above --conf parameter for notify2.conf and notify.conf. These notifiers must be started manually using the following syntax:

BASEDIR/smarts/bin/sm_notify --output[=<file>]
[<param> ...] <notifier>

Additional Information

The --conf parameter is used by the sm_notify command to start multiple Email Notifier Adapters on a single host. If the --conf parameter is not specified, the notifier uses the default configuration file:

<notifier>-notify.conf in BASEDIR/smarts/conf/notifier