Hi Friends,
I was trying to setup a simple scenario on my Hyper-V VM to send an auto email if CPU usage crosses 80% consistently for 5 mins. I got stuck up in SMTP/email
configuration. My VM is win2k8r2 & sql 2k8 r2. This is what I did..
1.
Installed SMTP feature
2.
Configured a Data Collector Alert on Processor counter; alert action being to log an event in Application Log.
3.
I then navigated to the application event log, right clicked and “Attach Task to this Event”
4.
I configure the task with all default and in Actions – I chose to “Send an email”
5.
“Send an email” has very simple configuration like, From, To, etc and the SMTP Server which is were, I think, is all the problem.
6.
I tried setting SMTP Server to all possible values like IP address, localhost, etc – but mail sending failed.
7.
I tried to configuring the SMTP server (virtual) using IIS 7 console – but that did not work either.
I am clueless how can I send email using the SMTP feature – looked into many resources on the net and tried various combinations, but in vain. Can anyone assist?
I think the above are 2 many steps to for a simple requirement. Is there another simple mechanism to shoot an email when the a particular process crosses
80% CPU usage for 5 mins consistently?
Regards
Amit
