Email alerts when server restarts.

[SimpleSi]

We had a few wide area mains failures today which caused a few IT problems.

 

Does anyone use.know of a simple method (not involving a whole network monitoring setup ) of getting a server to send an email once its restarted so at least I get to know which schools have a had a dip?

 

regards

 

Simon

[Steve21]

Well pc startup script (vbs etc) should do it?

 

Or do you mean virtual side rather than server server?

 

Steve

[tumbleweed]

Should be an event raised by shutdown tracker, and you can attach tasks to events - depending on server version maybe need to use 'blat' to send an email.

 

Meanwhile ... Ripley's in a spot of bother,again.

[SYNACK]

Easy, scheduled tasks to run on startup. Easier if using 2008 as there is a built in option to email someone via smtp and even tie it to a specific event in the event log. With 2003 you nee to use a commad line smtp client Blat - A Win32 Command Line SMTP Mailer | Free Communications software downloads at SourceForge.net to send the email to you.

[SimpleSi]

Thanks for the pointer to blat - just trying to guess the correct settings for my county mailserver to get it to send !

 

Si

[dbrown]

While you are all here, I have a much simpler problem. Where do I find the Shutdown Event Tracker records?

I'm having a bit of a problem with unexpected shutdowns (on a Win 2008 server) so I'd like to locate these events precisely. But I can't find any relevant records in Event Log. MS Help is great about telling me how to record the reasons for planned shutdowns and how to record unexpected shutdowns when I restart, but no use at all when I want to find this information later.

If it is in an event log, which? whats the ID? and what's the source? Please, anyone.