Thanks for the feedback, Dirk I got your other replies also. I already have a check set up to monitor the SMTP port on the mail server. However the mail server is not under my control and occasionally we have a slight issue on the corporate network that causes my Windows Messaging system to lose it's SMTP authentification.
Some times the SMTP issue is resolved before the usual SMTP check spots this in Servers Alive, so I have no alert that advises that SMTP has been unavailable, and it is only when user complain that the outbound Windows Messaging system has not been sending mails that we realise there has been a problem. When we manually check the machine running the Windows Messaging application we find that we have to re-supply the SMTP authentification details. This then reconnects the Windows Messaging system to the SMTP service and if you check the Outbox of the Windows Messaging application you see the backlogged messages being sent out. It is this Outbox I want to monitor, so that if we see a backlog of messages building then we can check the machine and re-supply the SMTP authentification details as required to keep the service running. Any other suggestions? Regards, Andy -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan Marsden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 15 August 2003 21:34 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SA-list] Checking a Microsoft Inbox Andy, I don't think that count files is going to work, I think Dirk is right about setting up the regular smtp check that is built into SA...though there is another external check that comes with SA called "SMTP2POP3" that will make sure that the SMTP service is not only running, but actually working, I think it sends test emails to a pop3 server...which would give you a better check on the entire mail delivery process. What do you think, Dirk? Jonathan Marsden -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 1:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [SA-list] Checking a Microsoft Inbox IF it's realy an SMTP connection that fails, then the normal Servers ALive SMTP check can work. dirk. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Carroll, Andy Sent: Fri Aug 15 7:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SA-list] Checking a Microsoft Inbox Forgive me if this has already been asked but I didn't see it in the archive. I would like to run a check against the standard Microsoft Windows Messaging Inbox on NT. I have an application that uses Windows Messaging in order to communicate with the outside world, however occasionally the SMTP connection fails and there is nothing to indicate this other than the fact that I get a backlog of messages queuing in the Windows Messaging Outbox. I will be moving away from this method of communicating with the outside world at some point but until then I need some method of automatically monitoring it. Does anyone know of a way to check if there are any messages in the Windows Messaging Outbox? I assume countfiles could possibly be used, but how I don't know. Does anyone have any ideas? Regards, Andy To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive --- avast! Antivirus: Inbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 8/14/2003 Tested on: 8/15/2003 2:02:38 PM avast! is copyright (c) 2000-2003 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com --- avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 8/14/2003 Tested on: 8/15/2003 4:33:41 PM avast! is copyright (c) 2000-2003 ALWIL Software. http://www.avast.com To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
