Sandra,

I have a similar setup except we are not virtualized.  Usually
restarting the Email service gets us going but you have done that, so
let's go the more obscure topics.

- What email type are you using for incoming and outgoing email?  (We
use MAPI, so that's where my experience is.)
- Have you checked the Remedy email account has not be accidently change
from a service account to a User account so the password expired.  (Has
happened to us twice in 5 years)
- Can or do you accept incoming emails and are they being processed?  (I
have an exception in the rules that only allows me and 3 other accounts
to send emails to the server, every one else is re-directed to the
Service Desk.)

One other thought once this problem is resolved, BLAT (www.blat.net) is
a Public Domain command line client that uses SMTP.  I setup a
escalation that checks the Email Messages form every fifteen minutes, if
Remedy has messages that have been sitting there for 5 minutes, it sends
me and a few others an email notice.

Harry Wilson
Systems Development Specialist
Orange County Data Center
CEO\IT-Computer Operations Division
"Hey! You! Remedy Guy" 
(How our Operations manager used to address me)
<mailto:harry.wil...@ceoit.ocgov.com>


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Qin Chen
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 12:17
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Mid-Tier and Email Failure (U)

Also, 

Check your registry issue.   Also, you may need to increase your java
heap size.

Qin Chen
Network Architect
Uni-Data & Communications, Inc
718-445-5600 x3186
917-574-9340

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Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 3:14 PM
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Thanks - will check

Sandra Hennigan

OSD Enterprise Remedy Administrator
Office # 703-601-0789

Apparently, there is nothing that cannot happen today.  Mark Twain


-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of LJ Longwing
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 3:05 PM
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in your email log dir you should have a stdout.log and stderr.log that
get written every time you restart the service...so if your logs haven't
been written to since the 16th, I would think that you may be looking at
the wrong log set. 

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[mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Hennigan, Sandra H CTR OSD-CIO
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 12:27 PM
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Thanks.
New Atlanta - I'm having the server admin check for log AR Email Error
log last entry is 13 December. I do not have the error but it pertains
to a lost Host ID which was corrected on 16 December.

I just found out that Microsoft patches were applied 16 December.


Sandra Hennigan

OSD Enterprise Remedy Administrator
Office # 703-601-0789

Apparently, there is nothing that cannot happen today.  Mark Twain


-----Original Message-----
From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList)
[mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of LJ Longwing
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 2:05 PM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Re: Mid-Tier and Email Failure (U)


Both the Mid-Tier Applet server (Tomcat, NewAtlanta)?, and the email
engine have log files that should tell you if they connected to remedy
properly...the services can start and not connect properly...without any
outward error.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Hennigan, Sandra H CTR OSD-CIO
Sent: Monday, January 12, 2009 11:54 AM
To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG
Subject: Mid-Tier and Email Failure (U)

UNCLASSIFIED

ARS Server Version/Patch- ARS 6
Help Desk 5
ARS MidTier Version/Patch- 6
OS/Version- Windows Sever 2003
SQL 2000

The ARS server was virtualized about 4 months ago.

Help - both the mid-tier and the email engine have stopped responding.

ARS, Help Desk and Mid-Tier are all housed on the same server that
connects to a remote SQL database.

Help Desk appears to be running without error - tickets can be
submitted, resolved and are being auto-closed as expected.

The AREmail form is being created but is not getting sent.

The server has been restarted a couple of times. I even had the team
shut down the server then boot. Both the Remedy Email Engine service and
IIS say "Started" Both can be stopped/started as if nothing was wrong.

The server team swears that no changes have been made - I have searched
the server and not found "Modified dates" that would indicate changes.
Microsoft patching was last done 16 December. This problem arrived
Thursday 8 January.

A ticket has been opened with Remedy Support but we have not yet
received assistance. Any ideas how to restore use of the Email engine
and mid-tier?

Sandra Hennigan


Apparently, there is nothing that cannot happen today.  Mark Twain

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