Server Monitor Notification – does it work?

[mjacks43]

I am having a slight issue with apples Server Monitor sending out email alerts. Every time there is a change of state requiring an alert to be sent out the following message is added to the log(the email address has been change for the usual reasons):

Email notification could not be sent to ‘email@address.com’

This is repeated for each email address in the list of people to be notified. Since the change of state is recorded, hwmond seems to be working fine. I have also verified this using ipmitool.

I have also verified that postfix is working correctly and will send email to the destination addresses, elimination any ISP interference with the smtp traffic. I also have the same issue with Apple’s Mail server running. It seems that the problem must be a disconnect somewhere between Server Monitor and postfix, however I have no idea how to confirm or dismiss this beyond what I have already done.

Normally I would simply give up on the built-in monitoring and deploy an alternative solution, however this isn’t an option as it is a mobile rig and space, power, and cooling is at a premium.

If anyone has any ideas of next steps to take I would appreciate it as I have multiple systems effected.

2 X 2.0GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon Xserve
OS X Server 10.5.6
Server Monitor 1.6.1
LOM 1.2.8

2 x 2.8 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon Xserve
OS X Server 10.5.4
Server Monitor 1.6.1
LOM 1.1.0

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