Okay, I'm a little late responding to this, but here's my .02. I don't
think it has anything to do with the NIC cards, at least in my case. We were
having the same problem with iwebmsg.exe shooting up to 100%ish and
rebooting seemed to be the only temporary solution. At the time, we were
running Web Messaging on the standard ports, 80 and 443. I loaded IIS and
let it run on 80 and set the Web Messaging to port 2010. Then I wrote a very
simple ASP page as the default page in IIS (snippet below) to grab the URL,
parse it to the Web Messaging URL and redirect all port 80 requests to the
2010 port for Imail. This works for all of our Imail domains and we haven't
had the problem since.
For us, at least, the problem seemed to stem from Code Red and Nimda.
Ipswitch has not written anything for the internal Apache server that runs
the Web Messaging that filters out these types of Viruses' traffic and what
happens is that the server gets slammed trying to process the virus'
requests which hit the standard ports of 80 and 443. They don't seem to go
for non-standard ports. Although Ipswitch hasn't, Microsoft has written a
patch for IIS to filter these out, so I am letting it do just that and it
runs like a dream.
The only down side is getting the redirect script to work on SSL. Still
working on that one. For now we just shoot people off to the non-SSL port
and they can link into SSL from there if they want to. Just make sure you
have all of the IIS patches installed. Here's the code, hope it helps...
-------------
Default.asp Code:
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT"%> <%Response.buffer = True%>
<% Response.Redirect("http://"; & Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_HOST") &
":2010")%>
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Charles Short
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Systems Administrator
Orotech Web Services
http://www.orotech.net
910.350.7980 voice
910.350.7976 fax
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 3:33 PM
Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] 5am, Rebooting server. Webmessaging crashed with
no load on it. - workaround
> Heh this is so funny, I too have this same problem. The other say I got
sick
> of it and wrote a stupid script that checks to see if the service is down.
> If it is stopped, it starts it back up. Just stick it in your favorite
task
> scheduler. I'm so nuts I actually wrote it in VBScript and JScript.
>
> JScript for the cool guys... :)
>
> //define a constant for stopped services
> var ADS_SERVICE_STOPPED = 1;
>
> //get an ADSI object for a computer
> var objComputer = GetObject("WinNT://DomainName/ServerName,computer");
>
> //get an object for a service
> var objService = objComputer.GetObject("Service","IWebMsg");
>
> //check to see if the service is stopped
> if (objService.Status == ADS_SERVICE_STOPPED) {
> //if the service is stopped, then start it
> objService.Start();
> }
>
> VBScript for those nutty guys...
>
> ' define a constant for stopped services
> Const ADS_SERVICE_STOPPED = 1
>
> ' get an ADSI object for a computer
> Set objComputer = GetObject("WinNT://DomainName/ServerName,computer")
>
> ' get an object for a service
> Set objService = objComputer.GetObject("Service","IWebMsg")
>
> ' check to see if the service is stopped
> If (objService.Status = ADS_SERVICE_STOPPED) Then
>
> ' if the service is stopped, then start it
> objService.Start
>
> End If
>
>
> jon
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mike Fillator" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 9:00 AM
> Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] 5am, Rebooting server. Webmessaging crashed
with
> no load on it.
>
>
> > I have been suffering from the exact same intermittant
> > problem. Web messaging service just stops. No apparent reason. My
> > specs are almost the same as you except that I only have about 50
> > users total on the box. I can tell you that you can start the "I-
> > mail web service" service manually by itself and not reboot the
> > server (I can anyway). That is the extent of my understanding.
> > nothing in the event viewer or the logs to indicate a reason for
> > the breakdown.
> > Fortunately I didn't waste the money on a support agreement,
> > thanks to the enlightening posts to this list. I could, however
> > use a resolution if anyone has one.
> >
> > TIA
> >
> > Mike Fillator, MCSE, MCP+I
> > Network solutions developer
> > Light Speed Technologies
> > Sudbury Ontario,
> > Phone (705) 524-2450
> > Fax (705) 524-2506
> >
> >
> >
> > ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> > From: "discuss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2002 05:52:50 -0500
> >
> > >I followed the discussion here since the last call on my service
> > >contract call to Ipswitch was met with someone who could not
> > >answer one question without putting me on hold and asking someone
> > >else.
> > >
> > >I monitored to try and see when the web messaging was dying.
> > >
> > >I thought maybe a heavy load?
> > >
> > >Today, this morning. Minimal users on, no one with large boxes
> > (a
> > >suggested culprit). Memory never peaked high, cpu running fine,
> > >web monitoring on - web messaging dead.
> > >
> > >Joy.
> > >
> > >Joy.
> > >
> > >Joy.
> > >
> > >Since Ipswitch's crack technical support team is now beyond my
> > >want to pay - has anyone who had web messaging issues found a
> > >solution that worked for them? To quote wargames, I would piss
> > on
> > >a spark plug if I thought that would help. It crashes every 2-3
> > >days. I tried rebooting nightly to see if that would help.
> > >Nope. I have thought of imgate, but really the load was so light
> > >this morning, I can't see offloading the smtp service as having a
> > >giant impact.
> > >
> > >I have had it. I have lost customers, lost users, lost hair.
> > >
> > >I am running with the latest patches. I have a gig of ram,
> > >running nt4 with all the patches, nothing recently. I connect in
> > >with PCanywhere sometimes. It is registry based, the registry is
> > >42mb big with the abilit to grow to 90. I run diskeeper to
> > >defrag the drives, the system drive is seperate than imail. I
> > >have the swap on another drive. The swap is 3x my memory. The
> > >system is normally run logged in lately so I can monitor the
> > >system (logged into nt, not pcanywhere always)
> > >
> > >Am I missing anyting? I am tired, waking up to fix webmessaging
> > is
> > >no treat. i just wrote a script to reboot the server when it
> > >stops repsonding, since in the past it has stopped responding
> > >because of crashes. At this point, who knows, and I wish I could
> > >say who cares (which then I guess I could be hired by ipswitch)
> > >
> > >I am so past disgusted. Good thing email is important to
> > people...
> > >
> > >Sorry if this is ranting, sorry if this is rude. I am just at the
> > >end of my rope with Ipswitch. I just can't believe they would
> > >release patch after hacked together patch for a piece of software
> > >that is so mission critical. I think of starting all my backend
> > >stuff from scratch with new software and I want to cry (no it
> > does
> > >not directly interact with the system past adding users at a rate
> > >of 100 a day). I don't need this. I can't wait to be tired and
> > >crabby at my later tonight valentine's dinner.
> > >
> > >Thanks ipswitch.
> > >
> > >________________________________________________________________
> > >Get your own evilemail.com address at http://www.evilemail.com
> > >
> >
>
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