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Message from discussion SMTP Virtual Server Instance 1 Fails to Start

Evan Dodds [MSFT]

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More options Jan 6 2005, 5:24 pm

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From: "Evan Dodds [MSFT]" <ev...@online.microsoft.com>

Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 17:24:50 -0500

Local: Thurs, Jan 6 2005 5:24 pm

Subject: Re: SMTP Virtual Server Instance 1 Fails to Start

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Nik -

Generally, you will find extended data associated with the error code in the
IsAlive failure. If you open up the event in event viewer and click the
button to copy out the event, then paste it into notepad do you see a bunch
of numbers in the section labeled "Data:"? This is the extended data and
will contain the error code that resulted in the IsAlive failure. If this
doesn't appear in the event viewer for some reason, you can also find this
data in the cluster.log file (although this is a bit more complex method to
explain in the newsgroup).

A few of the most common things I can think of that cause it to start up,
run for a minute or two, and then fail are: 1) Improper ServerBindings or
SecureServerBindings values 2) Broken Winsock 3) Inadequate system resources
to create the winsock connection for the IsAlive check, etc... could be any
of a number of things. The error code logged at the time of the failure will
hopefully point to a specific cause, or at least get you closer than the
generic IsAlive failure.

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Evan Dodds
Microsoft Exchange Support

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"Nik" <n...@plz.nospam.gotadsl.co.uk> wrote in message

news:41dc6fab$0$105$65c69314@mercury.nildram.net...

> "Evan Dodds [MSFT]" <ev...@online.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:OxWAvV28EHA.1564@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Nik -

>> What's the error code listed for the IsAlive check failure? There are a
>> lot of things that can cause this, but hopefully the error code will
>> point us in a specific direction.

>> --
>> Evan Dodds
>> Microsoft Exchange Support

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>> rights.

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>> "Nik" <n...@plz.nospam.gotadsl.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:41dbb6cf$0$113$65c69314@mercury.nildram.net...
>>> Hi

>>> I have just built a 2 node A/P and am struggling with getting the SMTP
>>> virtual instance to start.

>>> I have trawled through the newsgroups and found similar issues but never
>>> a fix.

>>> The error that I am receiving is :

>>> SMTP Virtual Server Instance 1 (servername): The IsAlive check for this
>>> resource failed.
>>> For more information, click
>>> http://www.microsoft.com/contentredirect.asp.

>>> Event ID : 1005

>>> I have checked in ESM and the Default SMTP server is correctly bound to
>>> the Exchange VS IP address.

>>> I'm kinda stuck as to were to start with looking for more info on this
>>> one, can anyone point me in right direction ?

>>> Cheers in advance

>>> Nik

>>> to mail direct remove plz.nospam. from the email address.

> Evan

> All I am getting in the way of error codes is an event in the application
> event log for MSExchangeCluster with ID 1005 and the text originally
> pasted.

> The instance starts then fails, raises this even and then tries a few more
> times between the nodes in the cluster. All other exchange services start
> without issue. I have also tried to increase (significantly) the isalive
> value to see if that helped, but with no joy.

> Is there somewhere else I need to be looking to get the exact IsAlive
> check failure error code ?

> Cheers

> Nik

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