In my previous post I mentioned what I see as a fatal flaw with the “Alert on Error” scenario, well no sooner posted than to quote Shakespeare “hoisted by my own petard” HA!  I have a log shipped setup where the server communicates alerts using smtp .. well today I discovered that for some reason or another any alerts were not reaching me as it appears there is an issue raising them, no errors on the servers just no emails arriving. In my defence I have a visual display which shows the latency...(read more)

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