Re: Alert Log Monitoring / Notification

From: Ana C. Dent <anacedent_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 17:48:40 -0800
Message-ID: <YLt4c.22760$BA.21327@fed1read03>

STOP TOP POSTING! Burt Peltier wrote:
> Not sure about sendmail, but I know utl_smtp has to specify the smtp server
> to deliver the message to. So, if you use some other "smtp capable" server
> to pass the email to, it might work where sendmail would fail.
>
> In our company intranet, all Unix machines send sendmail mail to "localhost"
> and it then gets routed to a central smtp server . So, if it is possible to
> bypass "localhost" and localhost was the problem, this might fix the
> problem?
>

Of course all of the above is possible, but still there is NO guarantee of (timely?) delivery. What happens if/when the "other" system is down, unavailable or otherwise VERY busy?

I was just warning that I know from 1st hand experience that email ALERT messages do not always get promptly delivered.

Exactly how you decide to best deal with reality is between you and your boss. You've been warned. Received on Fri Mar 12 2004 - 19:48:40 CST