[Bro] turn off host up/down emails

James Lay jlay at slave-tothe-box.net
Mon Jul 14 07:13:25 PDT 2014


On 2014-07-14 07:44, Daniel Thayer wrote:
> Those emails are generated by broctl cron, and there is no option
> to configure that behavior.
>
>
> On 07/14/2014 06:57 AM, sangdrax8 wrote:
>> How would I go about stopping the e-mails about hosts being up/down? 
>> I
>> use nagios to track host status and would rather not have this done 
>> in
>> multiple places.  I believe this e-mail is done as part of the tasks
>> from the cron job, but I don't if there is an option to turn this 
>> off or
>> if it would require a hook into the notice framework.  If it does 
>> take a
>> notice hook, what would be the cleanest way to suppress these 
>> e-mails?
>>   Perhaps there is a specific type that I could suppress?
>>
>> If someone could point me in the right direction it would be much
>> appreciated!

Before I stopped using broctl I had to configure postfix to drop 
these...not sure how your setup is though.  Seth, we really need an 
option to turn these off.

James




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