Actions - primary/secondary SMTP

[agressiv]

Right now, we have 2 floating pagers which we send critical pages to. All of the support staff have cell phones which can take pages like the pager, but it would be tedious to change the alerts each week when our on-call rotates. Our concern with using a distribution list that we maintain is that it puts a dependancy on our mail server, which potentially could be what goes down. Right now we can send it right to a redundant SMTP relay.

1) At what point does HM use the secondary SMTP setting? Our problem is that our mail server will more than likely accept the mail, but it will queue up, so I don't imagine the secondary getting used unless the primary is not listening at all on port 25, or possibly if it rejects it, which generally doesn't happen.

2) Is there a way of reading from a text file or variable what an email address is for an action? That way I dont have to physically open HM and go to the actions pane to change who is on-call, I can automate something outside of that.

Thanks -

Greg

[KS-Soft]

>1) At what point does HM use the secondary SMTP setting?

HostMonitor connects to secondary SMTP server when it cannot send mail using primary SMTP server (for any reason).

>2) Is there a way of reading from a text file or variable what an email address is for an action? That way I dont have to physically open HM and go to the actions pane to change who is on-call, I can automate something outside of that.

HostMonitor version 4 will have list of global macro variables. I think its what you need.

Regards
Alex