Notifications
Configure OpenAdmin notifications and Email alerts settings.
- With OpenAdmin
- With OpenCLI
To view or edit current notification settings, go to OpenAdmin > Settings > Notifications or click the 'Edit Settings' button on the Notification page.
To view notification settings, run:
opencli admin notifications get <OPTION>
Example:
# opencli admin notifications get reboot
yes
To update notification settings, run:
opencli admin notifications update <OPTION> <NEW-VALUE>
Example:
opencli admin notifications update load 10
Updated load to 10
Email
Configure email address to be used for receiving system notifications and alerts.
Enter your email address in the Email for notifications field. Leave it empty to disable email alerts.
If email address is set, daily usage report will be sent to the address, schedule is configurable from 'Advanced > System Cron Jobs'.
Services
Receive notifications when services are down or unresponsive. Services are checked every 5 minutes.
- OpenPanel: Notification if OpenPanel UI fails.
- OpenAdmin: Notification if OpenAdmin UI fails.
- Caddy: Notification if webserver is not responding.
- MySQL: Notification if database is unreachable.
- Docker: Notification if Docker service is down.
- BIND9: Notification if DNS service is down or unresponsive.
- ConfigServer Firewall: Notification if CSF is disabled.
Resource Usage
Get alerts when resource usage exceeds thresholds (checked every 5 minutes):
- Load Average
- CPU %
- RAM %
- Disk Usage %
- SWAP %
Actions
Receive notifications when specific actions occur:
- Server rebooted
- Website under attack
- User reaches plan limit
- OpenAdmin accessed from a new IP address
- New OpenPanel update available
SMTP Settings
By default, email alerts are sent from noreply@openpanel.com.
To use your own SMTP server for email delivery, configure the following:
- With OpenAdmin
- With OpenCLI
Configure each value via opencli config update commands, for example:
opencli config update mail_server example.net
opencli config update mail_port 465
opencli config update mail_use_tls False
opencli config update mail_use_ssl True
opencli config update mail_username user@example.net
opencli config update mail_password strongpassword123
opencli config update mail_default_sender user@example.net