Take Control of Mail Server Management

Applications Manager provides in-depth availability and performance monitoring of Mail Servers. Applications Manager connects to the Mail server and performs SMTP, IMAP operations and POP operations, sends e-mail receives e-mail, Checks SMTP, IMAP and POP servers to ensure availability.

The Mail Server Management feature enables performance management by monitoring the response time of the server and updates the status based on a given threshold and also provides comprehensive management reports. It also ensures availability and health through automated event escalation via email, SMS etc. and helps taking corrective action by executing user scripts that can help restart a service etc.

The components that are monitored in Mail Server:

Mail Server Monitoring Capabilities

• Out-of-the-box management of Mail Server.
• Monitors performance statistics such as Availability and Response time.
• Based on the thresholds configured, notifications and alarms are generated if the mail server or any specified attribute within the system has problems. Actions are executed automatically based on configurations.
• Performance graphs and reports are available instantly. Reports can be grouped and displayed based on availability, health, and connection time.
• Delivers both historical and current Mail server performance metrics, delivering insight into the performance over a period of time.

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Wondering how?Yep, you can integrate Dell OpenManage with Applications Manager using SNMP Trap Listener under Admin Tab in Applications Manager.Dell OpenManage has the capacity to send SNMP traps and that can be received by Applications Manager.You can send the failures in OpenManage as SNMP traps to Applications Manager.The failures received as traps can be seen under alarms tab, which also shows the failures in Applications Manager too.You can also get notifications from Applications Manager by associating actions ( EMail, SMS, Execute Program etc.,) that need to be executed when the trap is received. ..... read full blog