Re: Server reports not emailed

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From: Allen M (allenmiyake_at_majaro.com)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 13:18:12 -0800

I know you tried re-running the wizard a few times. When you re-ran it did
you select "Modify Existing settings" or did you try "Reinstall monitoring
Features". the latter will reinstall monitoring features if they are not
working correctly.

"Joe" <joe@jretrading.com> wrote in message
news:Z+dFLxHxJW7BFwmV@jretrading.com...
> In message <uFLpIrY$EHA.824@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl>, Allen M
> <allenmiyake@majaro.com> writes
>>Believe it or not I think a simple reboot will resolve your issue. Also
>>check to make sure your Messenger service is running.
>>
> It was rebooted at least three times yesterday, and once today. It is
> possible that one of yesterday's reboots shook some sense into it, but by
> this morning it still didn't send the report. Messenger is running.
>
>
>>
>>"Joe" <joe@jretrading.com> wrote in message
>>news:OMtgHlFy7U7BFwGr@jretrading.com...
>>>A server running SBS 2003 Standard has been emailing me daily and
>>>fortnightly reports for some months. It stopped doing so last Tuesday,
>>>and
>>>I was able to investigate today. If I try to do it manually I get the
>>>message:
>>>
>>> An error occurred while sending the Server Status Report. Verify that
>>> report configuration settings are correct, and then try again.
>>>
>>> Needless to say, no email addresses have changed or been changed. I
>>> tried
>>> re-running the wizard, no good. I tried restarting the monitoring
>>> service,
>>> which in turn restarted the MSSQL$SBSMONITORING service, or tried to.
>>> SQLAgent$SBSMONITORING reported that a dependency service failed to
>>> start.
>>> Trying to start the latter manually gave a report that the service had
>>> started and immediately stopped, and that some services were supposed to
>>> do that. From then on the event log was filled with 19011 entries from
>>> the
>>> non-starting service, followed by howls of protest from GroupShield and
>>> regular complaints from SBS Monitoring. A reboot got rid of all this but
>>> did not restore report emails.
>>>
>>> I've found three or four mentions over the last year of this kind of
>>> problem, but only questions, no answers. I can find nothing in the logs
>>> at
>>> the time the reports should be sent, and the Alert service still seems
>>> able to send email to the same addresses. There were no unusual log
>>> entries in the 24 hours before the first missing report. It is entirely
>>> possible that I made some change that day that has caused the problem,
>>> but
>>> nothing is logged and I didn't write anything down for that day, so any
>>> work done must have been trivial and fairly routine.
>>>
>>> Any ideas where to start?
>>> --
>>> Joe
>>
>>
>
> --
> Joe

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