IF you have an alternate SMTP defined and the fail-over enabled then it will go to the alternate when the first gives a problem (unreachable via ping or any other problem). If you disable the ping (of the smtp server) then we will try to send via it and that could fail too.
Dirk Bulinckx. -----Original Message----- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Wheeler Sent: Saturday, December 08, 2007 12:00 AM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] Issue with emailing alerts I understand[Believe me, I've had that same discussion myself with others] but email alerts weren't working consistantly over 1.5 days while the same server was reachable every 5 minutes via ping. I'm trying to understand what the difference is between the type of check before an alert email and the monitoring checks. Would disabling PING before sending emails make any difference? Would it not fail over to the alternate smtp server if I chose that option? David A. Wheeler XOMA (US) LLC Sr. Network Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 510-204-7248 (Office) 510-644-0539 (Fax) -----Original Message----- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Bulinckx Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 1:55 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: RE: [SA-list] Issue with emailing alerts Assuming that the PING check and the mailhost are the same host. It's not because something works fine at 5:40:44 and also at 5:49:51, that it also works fine at 5:41:28 Dirk Bulinckx. -----Original Message----- From: Servers Alive Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Wheeler Sent: Friday, December 07, 2007 10:45 PM To: Servers Alive Discussion List Subject: [SA-list] Issue with emailing alerts Question: If the email server is up via the checks, why would the alerting section say it's down when attempting to send an alert? Servers alive worked correctly after I rebooted the server and did chkdsk/f to fix some disk errors. Notes: ------------- Thursday, December 06, 2007 5:40:44 PM 1N-Mailhost Connectivty [M] Thursday, December 06, 2007 5:40:44 PM 1N-Mailhost Connectivty [M] OK with a successrate of 100% and an average roundtriptime of 0 ms Thursday, December 06, 2007 5:41:28 PM SMTP server down (no response to PING) not sending mail Thursday, December 06, 2007 5:49:51 PM 1N-Mailhost Connectivty [M] Thursday, December 06, 2007 5:49:51 PM 1N-Mailhost Connectivty [M] OK with a successrate of 100% and an average roundtriptime of 0 ms -- The information contained in this email message may contain confidential or legally privileged information and is intended solely for the use of the named recipient(s). No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any transmission error. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please immediately delete the e-mail and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender either by telephone or return e-mail. Any direct or indirect use, disclosure, distribution, printing, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorized to state them to be the views of XOMA. To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you removed from the list. To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you removed from the list. -- The information contained in this email message may contain confidential or legally privileged information and is intended solely for the use of the named recipient(s). No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any transmission error. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, please immediately delete the e-mail and all copies of it from your system, destroy any hard copies of it and notify the sender either by telephone or return e-mail. Any direct or indirect use, disclosure, distribution, printing, or copying of any part of this message is prohibited. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorized to state them to be the views of XOMA. To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you removed from the list. To unsubscribe send a message with UNSUBSCRIBE as subject to [email protected] If you use auto-responders (like out-of-the-office messages), then make sure that they are not send to the list nor to the individual members of the list that send a message. Doing this will get you removed from the list.
