Hi, Hoping someone has already completed the following and can give me a heads up and hopefully a copy of any scripts I need to complete this please. Having problems with the speed of internal/external email delivery, so need to monitor delivery times beyond just our internal Exchange servers so I need an echo email from a 3rd party mail system. I need to implementing a solution that:* Sends regular SMTP messages to an external mailbox, which bounces back internally (e.g. GoogleMail) * Records the delta in Sent / Received times * Have SolarWinds capture this information and store over time I've had a look and I can't see anything that can do this but I believe its possible to script, or hopefully I just missed something obvious. I would really appreciate any help or insight as to how to complete this, or if it can't be done, then that too.Thanks in advance, NIkki

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monitoring of the round trip time of our inbound / outbound mail chain

Hi,

Hoping someone has already completed the following and can give me a heads up and hopefully a copy of any scripts I need to complete this please.

Having problems with the speed of internal/external email delivery, so need to monitor delivery times beyond just our internal Exchange servers so I need an echo email from a 3rd party mail system. I need to implementing a solution that:

Sends regular SMTP messages to an external mailbox, which bounces back internally (e.g. GoogleMail)
Records the delta in Sent / Received times
Have SolarWinds capture this information and store over time

I've had a look and I can't see anything that can do this but I believe its possible to script, or hopefully I just missed something obvious. I would really appreciate any help or insight as to how to complete this, or if it can't be done, then that too.

Thanks in advance,
NIkki

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hmm, not sure if that does it... i have never tried it but have a look at:

battinski

You might be able to leverage the IPSLA module to collect this data, albeit with different probes aggregating it together.
If you set the probes on the mailserver itself you could ICMP RTT to the end point, TCP connect to the endpoint, DNS resolution for some hostnames and try and aggregate those scores together to give you a guidline figure (similar to the way the HTTP probe does a combination lookup, path and connect)?