SMTP Monitoring Tool Helps Troubleshoot Email Server Health Issues Faster
Monitor SMTP service availability
SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is designed to proactively monitor SMTP server and its ability to accept incoming connections and respond with the correct code. Get notified when the response time is below the expectations and resolve the potential issue before it escalates and impacts your email services.
Comprehensively monitor server hardware health
SAM’s SMTP monitoring tool also provides a detailed view of the health status and performance of your multi-vendor server hardware. SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor notifies you before critical mail server components, such as fan speed, temperature, power supply, CPU, battery, and hard drive status, fail. Quickly identify and resolve server hardware issues for Dell PowerEdge, HP ProLiant, IBM eServer xSeries servers, Dell PowerEdge Blade, HP BladeSystem enclosures, Microsoft Windows Server, and VMware vSphere hypervisor.
Manage server capacity and forecast resources
SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor (SAM) includes built-in capacity forecast charts and metrics to help easily identify when server resources reach warning and critical thresholds. Server & Application Monitor allows users to do the following.
- Track peak and average capacity over time to make accurate capacity forecasts
- Find and fix server capacity issues before they impact end-user productivity and business performance
- Monitor key metrics for SMTP, IMAP, and POP3 email protocols, including response time, CPU load, memory utilization, network latency, packet loss, and more to plan for capacity and resource utilization
These components can also monitor email messages sent to a designated SMTP server, retrieve the messages using IMAP and POP3, and measure the round-trip time (from send to receive).
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What is SMTP monitoring software?
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) enables a mail server and other message transfer agents to both send and receive digital messages. Think of SMTP as being the primary communication protocol behind the inbound and outbound transmission of emails. SMTP monitoring software not only authenticates an SMTP mail server’s ability to accept incoming sessions, but also positions an SMTP mail server to promptly respond. Each SMTP server maintains a unique address, and therefore needs to be set up within the mail client you are using.
How do SMTP monitoring tools work?
SMTP monitoring software first opens a connection to the identified SMTP mail server. From there, an SMTP monitoring tool waits for the server to respond with an appropriately standard Service Ready Code 220 opening message. Upon the monitor’s receipt of the message, by transmitting a QUIT command to terminate the SMTP connection, safe disconnection from the server then follows. The test fails, however, if the mail server fails to respond, or comes back with an error code relaying that a given service is unavailable.
Remember, SMTP servers also remain configured to perform reverse lookups on each and every incoming connection. This process validates that the IP address of a specific SMTP client matches the domain or host submitted when authorizing each connection.
Why is SMTP server monitoring important?
SMTP server monitoring is important for a few key purposes.
- Provide data insights. SMTP server monitoring tools can help ensure servers continue to achieve full functionality and optimal performance.
- Create mail client connections. SMTP monitoring establishes a mail client can create a new connection with a given SMTP mail server. To comply with the SMTP protocol, SMTP monitoring then verifies the mail server responds with the correct codes.
- Ensure speed. SMTP monitoring is important for ensuring timeliness, making certain the server always responds within a required number of seconds.
SMTP server monitoring software like Server & Application Monitor works to quickly and effectively troubleshoot any issues pertaining to SMTP server health or performance. The right SMTP server monitoring tool allows for automatic application discovery and server monitoring.
SolarWinds SAM provides built-in templates to establish best practices across email servers. Monitoring the availability, resource capacity, and performance of Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS services can be quickly carried out using an efficient SMTP monitoring tool such as SAM.
How to monitor SMTP server with SAM?
SolarWinds SAM is designed to proactively monitor an SMTP server and check its ability to respond with the correct code when accepting incoming connections. SAM provides notifications when the response time falls below specified thresholds. It SAM is also built to resolve potential SMTP issues before they escalate to adversely impact email services. In addition to monitoring SMTP availability, SAM also comprehensively monitors server hardware health.
SAM SMTP monitoring software comprehensively tracks your multi-vendor server hardware performance and health status. It works to keep your critical mail server components up and running at all times, and alerts you before any component fails, with insights into data points for temperature, CPU, power supply, battery, fan speed, hard drive status, and more.
With SAM, you can rapidly diagnose and remedy server hardware issues across a broad breadth of servers and devices. SAM can be applied to Dell PowerEdge Blade, HP BladeSystem enclosures, HP ProLiant, Dell PowerEdge, IBM eServer xSeries servers, Microsoft Windows Server, and VMware vSphere hypervisors.
Managing server capacity and forecasting resource availability is also made easy with SAM. The software provides built-in capacity forecast charts and relevant metrics to proactively determine when server resources approach warning and critical threshold levels. SAM makes accurate capacity forecasts by continuously tracking trend peak and average capacities. Server capacity issues can therefore more easily be identified and resolved before they begin to impact business performance or end-user productivity.
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- What is SMTP monitoring software?
- How do SMTP monitoring tools work?
- Why is SMTP server monitoring important?
- How to monitor SMTP server with SAM?
- Related Tools and Resources
What is SMTP monitoring software?
The Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) enables a mail server and other message transfer agents to both send and receive digital messages. Think of SMTP as being the primary communication protocol behind the inbound and outbound transmission of emails. SMTP monitoring software not only authenticates an SMTP mail server’s ability to accept incoming sessions, but also positions an SMTP mail server to promptly respond. Each SMTP server maintains a unique address, and therefore needs to be set up within the mail client you are using.
"We’re able to automate and alert on hardware components in SAM, and we find out in the afternoon about a bad fan rather than at midnight. It gives the operations team time to work on more important items."
Napoleon Crowe
Systems Architect
FPP Business Services
Troubleshoot SMTP server performance issues faster
Server & Application Monitor
- Automatic application discovery and server monitoring.
- Quickly monitor the performance and availability of Microsoft Azure and Amazon AWS services.
- Built-in templates provide best practices.
Starts at $1,813
SAM, an Orion module, is built on the SolarWinds Platform