How to send notification email from the centralized/hub CheckMk for all spoke checkmk

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CMK version: Raw Editiion

Hi All,

My company have several branches and each branch have checkmk Raw edition installed to check local network device and send notification email independently by using their own SMTP server/setting. We are the HQ iT team and also have CheckMk Raw Edition installed in HQ, and we are using The “Distributed Monitoring” to centralized monitor all Braches’ CheckMK and their monitored hosts status, what we want to know is if all the Braches checkmk’s notification will be sent a copy to our HQ checkmk as well , because we don’t want Branches Checkmk to send notification email independently, we want all branches’ notification are forwarded to ( Or Sync to ) HQ’s CheckMk , so we can centralized management to send out the notification email to each Branches centrally from the HQ. Please advise how can we do this ? Thank you.

If above doesn’t work with both HQ and Branches are Raw edition, actually We have another CHeckMK with Enterprise edition installed , will it work with HQ is Enterprise edition and Branch is Raw Edition ?

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That is not possible with RAW edition. Here the component “notification spooler” from the enterprise edition is not available. This spooler handles the forwarding to the central site.

Only option you have is a mail forwarding from your local CheckMK to the central CheckMK and let the postfix/sendmail then handle the messages there. But this has no integration into the GUI or rules of CheckMK.

In a distributed environment all systems need to be the same licence version. All enterprise or all RAW. With all enterprise the notification spooler will work.

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