https://blog.sandorkovacs.hu/tags/notifications/ Recent content in Notifications on shan's blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-us Sun, 29 Oct 2023 18:04:26 +0100 https://blog.sandorkovacs.hu/posts/moar-e-mail-notifications/ Sun, 29 Oct 2023 18:04:26 +0100 https://blog.sandorkovacs.hu/posts/moar-e-mail-notifications/ Recap So, last time I was able to configure an e-mail notification for the router logins, using my iCloud e-mail and Apple’s SMTP server. This gave me a boost to play around with other equipment and services I have. Next victim: my Ubuntu VM I wanted to keep an eye on my Ubuntu docker VM so it was the next logical subject for this experiment. I needed a local SMTP server which is able to use Apple’s SMTP, since I still don’t have the urge to host my own. https://blog.sandorkovacs.hu/posts/mikrotik-pushover-notifications/ Fri, 13 Oct 2023 14:29:50 +0200 https://blog.sandorkovacs.hu/posts/mikrotik-pushover-notifications/ Intro Since I promised that I’ll focus a little bit on the notifications area, here’s a new post on the subject. As I stated in my previous post I want to monitor my devices as well, for example my MikroTik router. Setup In the next sections I’ll go over the process of enabling and configuring e-mail notifications (relayed to Pushover) on the router; with all the prerequisites. SMTP server I don’t have a self-hosted SMTP server, and honestly I don’t plan to have one. https://blog.sandorkovacs.hu/posts/how-i-do-notifications/ Tue, 03 Oct 2023 20:52:31 +0200 https://blog.sandorkovacs.hu/posts/how-i-do-notifications/ Intro A lot of self-hosted software I use offer notification options and I do like to play with these, but getting the different implementations to work in a unified way can be a pain in the ass. I’d like to show you in this post how I arrived at my current solution and what other options I used along the way. The basic problem I have is that I always want to know what happens in my systems and take action if needed.