topic Re: Broadcast of old email alerts in Server Management - Systems Insight Manager

Broadcast of old email alerts

Peter Stringer — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 10:50:14 GMT

I have HP SIM 4.1 and every once in a while I get a broadcast of hundreds of oldish email alerts which is annoying the whole dept. I extracted the new patch designed to stop this but low and behold the problem has come back.

The patch is SP26214 which I got from the HP website, HPSIM Email/Pager message storm update

any ideas?

Re: Broadcast of old email alerts

Georg Tresselt — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:31:24 GMT

Are you sure it is not your email server that holds the broadcast back and releases it when it thinks it has some spare time left?

Re: Broadcast of old email alerts

Peter Stringer — Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:38:07 GMT

Why would it hold emails back from several months? Mind you we are using notes which is an awful Email system.

Not sure this is the answer, HPSIM and its predecessors seems to be pretty buggy so I would be inclined to believe this is where the problem is.

regards

Re: Broadcast of old email alerts

Georg Tresselt — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 03:04:10 GMT

The other thing I came across in the past, was an errorlog on the server which was always read when the server was booted and the errors were forwarded each time until they were deleted manually.

Re: Broadcast of old email alerts

Peter Stringer — Tue, 23 Nov 2004 03:48:33 GMT

So maybe it is a good idea to delete all critical and major uncleared items once in a while?

regards

Re: Broadcast of old email alerts

Georg Tresselt — Wed, 24 Nov 2004 03:02:27 GMT

From the server itself, yes.