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FreeNAS sending alert mails although alert frequency is set to “never”

Description

The settings:

System → Alert Settings → Scrub Finished → Set Frequency: NEVER
System → Alert Settings → Scrub Started → Set Frequency: NEVER
System → Alert Settings → Replication Succeeded → Set Frequency: NEVER

Under the alerts menu (the bell icon) the alerts still show up:

INFO
Replication "tank/foo" succeeded.
…

INFO
Replication "tank/bar" succeeded.
…

INFO
Scrub of pool 'freenas-boot' finished.
…

INFO
Scrub of pool 'freenas-boot' started.
…

WARNING
Certificate 'freenas-pre-certui' is expiring within -2261 days.
…

And every day FreeNAS sends out status emails:

Current alerts:

  • Device: /dev/ada1, 1 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors.

  • Device: /dev/ada1, new Self-Test Log error at hour timestamp 47042.

  • Scrub of pool 'freenas-boot' started.

  • Scrub of pool 'freenas-boot' finished.

  • Certificate 'freenas-pre-certui' is expiring within -2261 days.

  • Replication "tank/foo" succeeded.

  • Replication "tank/bar" succeeded.
    …

The unreadable sector notice is the one I want to receive. But FreeNAS does display the scrub and replication alerts in the alert menu (bell icon) as well as the notifications via email, although the frequency is set to NEVER.

Frequency=NEVER means to never notify about those particular alerts, neither in the GUI (bell icon), nor via email as far as I understand. The reasoning is that the user should be able to fine tune the alerts to only include relevant information and remove unneeded noise.

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Bug Clerk 
April 28, 2020 at 4:58 PM

Bug Clerk 
April 28, 2020 at 4:45 PM

Marco 
April 24, 2020 at 7:00 AM

Dismissing tens of replication jobs every day is not a practical solution.

 

Receiving email “alerts” about normal operating procedures (scrub started/finished, replication succeeded, etc.) is just noise. Expecially when turned off by the user. Turning them off means the user doesn't care about that bit of information. And still sending emails about finished replication hides the important bits like unreadable sectors or expiring cert.

 

I would vote to silence the alerts set to NEVER and not mention them in emails at all. If they show up in the gui, I don't mind, since I don't usually look at the gui during normal operation.

Vladimir Vinogradenko 
April 23, 2020 at 10:32 PM

 this feature means "do not send me an e-mail when event happens".

Alerts with "NEVER" option will still be visible in UI and be present in e-mails in "active alerts" section.

If you don't want to see some alert, you can dismiss it.

 do you think we should change this behavior?

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Created April 19, 2020 at 11:34 AM
Updated July 1, 2022 at 4:49 PM
Resolved April 28, 2020 at 4:58 PM