Lotus Domino Administrator 7 Help - Creating a mail-routing event generator

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Creating a mail-routing event generator
Create a mail-routing event generator to test and gather statistics on mail routes. To test a mail route, the ISpy task sends a mail-trace message to a specified user's mail server.

This event generator creates a statistic that indicates the amount of time, in seconds, it takes to deliver the message. If the mail-routing trace fails, the statistic has the value -1. If the Statistic Collector task is running, the Monitoring Results database (STATREP.NSF) stores the statistics. The format of a mail routing statistic is:

QOS.Mail.

RecipientName

.

ResponseTime

In addition, the ISpy task monitors the local mail server by default and generates events for traces that fail. To monitor other Domino mail servers, create an event generator and set up an event handler to notify you when an event has occurred.

To create a mail-routing event generator

1. Make sure that you started the ISpy task on the server.

2. From the Domino Administrator, click the Configuration tab, and then open the Monitoring Configuration view.

3. Open the Event Generators - Mail view, and click New Mail Routing Event Generator.

4. On the Basics tab, complete these fields:

Field Action

All Domino servers in the domain will probe themselves Do one:

Check this option to have each server to probe only the local mail box.
Uncheck this option to probe specified servers.

Recipient Enter the address of the recipient for which you want to check the mail route or use the drop-down box to select a recipient from a Domino Directory or Address Book. Do not enter more than one user and do not enter a group name.

Probing servers (source) Select the name of the server from which to start the probe.

Show intermediate hop times Enable this option to track intermediate hop times.

5. Click the Probe tab, and complete these fields:

Field Action

Send interval Enter the number of minutes between probes. The default is 15.

Time-out threshold Enter the number of minutes the probing server (source) waits for a response before logging a failure.

6. Click the Other tab, complete these fields, and then click Save & Close.

Field Action

On time-out, generate a Mail event of severity Select the severity level.

Create a new event handler for this event Click this button to launch the Event Notification Wizard and create an event handler.

See also

Event generators

Disabling an event generator

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Field	Action
All Domino servers in the domain will probe themselves	Do one: Check this option to have each server to probe only the local mail box. Uncheck this option to probe specified servers.
Recipient	Enter the address of the recipient for which you want to check the mail route or use the drop-down box to select a recipient from a Domino Directory or Address Book. Do not enter more than one user and do not enter a group name.
Probing servers (source)	Select the name of the server from which to start the probe.
Show intermediate hop times	Enable this option to track intermediate hop times.

Field	Action
Send interval	Enter the number of minutes between probes. The default is 15.
Time-out threshold	Enter the number of minutes the probing server (source) waits for a response before logging a failure.

Field	Action
On time-out, generate a Mail event of severity	Select the severity level.
Create a new event handler for this event	Click this button to launch the Event Notification Wizard and create an event handler.