Sure you can. When BO goes down, so does the process. This triggers an event
which can alert you by pretty much any method that you want. It will also
mean that there will be no emails at all in your mailbox. Also I'm sure all
your users will start screaming. So basically, the mail monitoring that you
want is a non-issue when it comes to monitoring the heartbeat of your BO
server.
Any Outlook based solution that you want would mean it needs to be custom as
it is a check-off list against another list of mails that should be
expected. Your answer is not looking for an Outlook based method but for a
proper system monitoring tool that can alert you via Outlook.
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"lawman" <lawman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> The biggest issue is when Business Objects itself goes down. If the BO
> server goes down, there is no way for BO to notify us of a failure. I
> know
> Outlook can't monitor anything. I am wondering if there is a plug in, or
> third part software that might be able to do the monitoring.
>
> "DL" wrote:
>
>> I'd have thought that if an application runs a specific task then that
>> application might produce a task log file, or even email, or otherwise
>> notifies, if that task fails.
>> Much like my backup app which gives both a log file after it has run,
>> together with an email msg if there has been any failure - The raid
>> controler I use does the same, for any events I have selected
>>
>> "lawman" <lawman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:70FE0281-592E-4AEA-B76F-CEA41203B1CC@microsoft.com...
>> > We have 5,000 scheduled reports that Business Objects runs and it sends
>> > an
>> > e-mail to a generic account after it finished running the report. We
>> > have
>> > specific subjet lines we are looking for. So we need something that
>> > can
>> > look
>> > for these specific subject lines and tell us when the e-mail doesn't
>> > show
>> > up.
>> > Otherwise we are going through pages and pages checking off every day
>> > to
>> > figure out which reports didn't show up.
>> >
>> > -Travis
>> >
>> > "Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" wrote:
>> >
>> >> You want it to tell you if an e-mail DOESN'T show up? How would it
>> >> know
>> >> when one was supposed to show up? I mean, I don't get e-mails all the
>> >> time - but it's not usually significant enough a non-event to require
>> >> notifying anybody. ;-)
>> >>
>> >> Could you maybe just have the report cc'd to you (or somebody else)?
>> >> Who is supposed to be looking at these e-mailed reports and wouldn't
>> >> they notice if one didn't arrive?
>> >>
>> >> --
>> >> -Ben-
>> >> Ben M. Schorr, MVP
>> >> Roland Schorr & Tower
>> >> http://www.rolandschorr.com
>> >> http://www.officeforlawyers.com
>> >>
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> "lawman" <lawman@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:B368273E-8F46-4449-A5D6-ADF9231A56F5@microsoft.com:
>> >>
>> >> > Our company is moving to Outlook 2007 next week. I was wondering if
>> >> > anyone
>> >> > knew of a program, add-on, free-ware, share-ware, etc... that could
>> >> > monitor a
>> >> > generic e-mail account looking for specific e-mails sent daily and
>> >> > notify me
>> >> > if an e-mail doesn't show up. Each e-mail has a unique subject
>> >> > line.
>> >> > We
>> >> > won't to have something that will monitor the e-mail and alert us
>> >> > when
>> >> > a
>> >> > Business Objects Report doesn't get e-mailed to the general e-mail
>> >> > account
>> >> > which would tell us the report failed to run.
>> >>
>> >>
>>
>>
>>
. Doesn't sound like Outlook has that capacity but I think it's a reasonable question to ask.