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  84                   <p>Came in today and noticed that Notes was complaining that a network operation had failed. Also saw a couple of messages that Clearcase was having problems so I started investigating. Apparently the albd_server was not running on rtnlprod01. Scanning the logs I found:</p>
  85
  86 <blockquote><tt>albd_log: Error: Unable to connect to SMTP server "172.16.101.56[6400]": Bad file descriptor.</tt></blockquote>
  87
  88 <p>Well 172.16.101.56 happens to be notesadmin01:</p>
  89
  90 <pre>
  91 C09-272-A:nslookup 172.16.101.56
  92 Server:  dhcp01.ameriquest.net
  93 Address:  172.16.101.100
  94
  95 Name:    notesadmin01.ameriquest.net
  96 Address:  172.16.101.56
  97 </pre>
  98
  99 <p>Why are we trying to email through notesadmin01 instead of notesmail01?</p>
 100
 101 <p>Meantime I unlocked the vobs...</p>
 102
 103 <p>Looking at the SMTP setting in Control Panel: Clearcase: Options I find the SMTP Host set to appsmtp.ameriquest.net which is an alias to notestadmin01.ameriquest.net:</p>
 104 <pre>
 105 C09-272-A:nslookup appsmtp
 106 Server:  dhcp01.ameriquest.net
 107 Address:  172.16.101.100
 108
 109 Name:    notesadmin01.ameriquest.net
 110 Address:  172.16.101.56
 111 Aliases:  appsmtp.ameriquest.net
 112 </pre>
 113 <p>I guess the questions are:</p>
 114
 115 <ul>
 116
 117   <li>What is the official SMTP host that we can rely on?</li>
 118   <li>Why does the [un]lock vobs job have problems and eventually kill the albd_server process simply because it cannot contact the SMTP host?</li>
 119
 120 </ul>
 121
 122 <p>Further investigation yields the following: The lock and unlock vobs scripts apparently appear in .../Rational/Clearcase/var/scheduler/tasks. There are 4 files involved:</p>
 123
 124 <ul>
 125
 126   <li>ccase_lock_vobs.bat: Simple bat file that fires off Perl on...</li>
 127   <li>lock_vobs.pl: This locks the vobs and sends email</li>
 128   <li>ccase_unlock_vobs.bat: Simple bat file that fires off Perl on...</li>
 129   <li>unlock_vobs.pl: This unlocks the vob and sends email</li>
 130
 131 </ul>
 132
 133 <p>Additionally these Perl scripts use C:/Winnt/System32/blat.exe to send mail.</p>
 134
 135 <p>Finally the task_registry file was modified to add these custom jobs.</li>
 136
 137 <p>I believe that this was done by perhaps Paul and/or Brian and it is fine work and does the job. However, seeing as we are about to reburn this system to Windows 2003 Server such work would be lost! And who would remember where this blat came from and that it needed to be reinstalled?</p>
 138
 139 <h3>Suggestions:</h3>
 140
 141 <p>I think we should use the Rational supplied tool, notify, instead of blat. This way we would not need to remember to find and reinstall this blat thing. I think Brian had problems getting notify to work and instead fell back on something he knew, blat, to get this working. Additionally IMHO blat should not be in the Windows directory! If we must use blat then perhaps we should install it into CM_TOOLS/bin.</p>
 142
 143 <p>Additionally I suggest that we relocate the .bat files and Perl scripts to CM_TOOLS/bin also and task_registry file should be pointed to CM_TOOLS/bin.</p>
 144
 145 <p>Finally I think there should be a script set up to reproduce/reinstall this environment.</p>
 146
 147 <p>IOW our stuff should also be version controlled and scripts written to automate it's installation and workings.</p>
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