How to use a secondary smtp server.

msthursday

Hello,

I recently setup ipMonitor to use an external process to send email to a backup smtp server in case of a mail server outage.  In case anyone else needs this info I'm documenting it below.

 

Requirements:

Install Powershell on your ipMonitor server.

 

External Process Configuration:

Executable Name:  powershell.exe

Directory:  c:\windows\system32\windowspowershell\v1.0\

Startup DIrectory: c:\scripts        <----  NOTE:  This is the directory where you save the script.

Failure Command Line:  -command "& {c:\scripts\MailServerDown.ps1}"       <-----  update this to match the path and name of your script.

 

Script:  MailServerDown.ps1

#####################################
#  Configure variables for email
#####################################
$filename = “”
$smtpServer = "servername.company2.com"
$sender = ”ipmonitor@company.com”
$recipient = "amanda@company2.com”
$subject = “Mailserver Down”

#####################################
#  Dump file into message body
#####################################
$message = "This is an alert from the ipMonitor system at Company.  One of the mail servers has a down alert.  Please investigate."
#$message = Get-Content $filename | out-string    <---  You can use this to dump a file into your message body.  Just remove the '#' at the beginning

#####################################
#  Email Audit file to Admins
#####################################
$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
$smtp.Send($sender, $recipient, $subject, $message)

Last Step:

Attach the external process to an alert.

 

Kind Regards,

Amanda

msthursday

I made a couple of updates in order to get some alert details into the email:

External Process Configuration:

Failure Command Line:   -command "& 'c:\scripts\mailserverdown.ps1' '%monitorname% %monitorstatus%' "     

^-----  update this to match the path and name of your script.

 

Updated Script:  MailServerDown.ps1

#####################################
#  Configure variables for email
#####################################
$filename = “”
$smtpServer = "mail-gw.company2.com"
$sender = ”ipmonitor@company1.com”
$recipient = "helpdesk@company2.com”
$subject = “company1 Mailserver Down”

#####################################
#  Dump file into message body
#####################################
#$message = Get-Content $filename | out-string

$message = "This is an alert from the ipMonitor system at company1.  `n"
$message = $message + "One of the mail servers has a down alert.  Please investigate `n`n`n"
$message = $message + "Details = $args[0] `n"


#####################################
#  Email Audit file to Admins
#####################################
$smtp = new-object Net.Mail.SmtpClient($smtpServer)
$smtp.Send($sender, $recipient, $subject, $message)