RE: Users notified of Alert creation but do not receive alert : Sharepoint

Application Development · #1 06-06-2007, 04:03 AM

Still nothing

I have 4 immediate alerts defined. For every site collection 1.

However I did try the stsadm command but still nothing. Disabled the 3 other
immediate alerts jobs. nothing

I'm getting frustrated...

--Wouter

"Chris E." wrote:

> Good suggestions. I went through them and alerts still were not working for
> me, and I figured it out:
> Under central administration, operations, (global configuration)timer job
> status or timer job definitions , if you don't see an "Immediate Alerts"
> timer job def, you need one! I did not have one until I ran these stsadm.exe
> commands on my WSS 3.0 server, then one appeared and initialized and ran:
> stsadm.exe -o setproperty -url http://mywss30server/mysite -pn
> alerts-enabled -pv true
>
> stsadm.exe -o setproperty -url http://mywss30server/mysite -pn
> job-immediate-alerts -pv "every 5 minutes"
>
> Now it works! All the alerts that had been piling up for two days came
> through.
>
>
> "gover" wrote:
>
> > We are having the same Alert issues on ONE of our two sps sites sites.
> > alert are working on the other site.
> >
> > When I goi into Cetral Admin and look at the Timer Job Definitions < i see
> > that a timer job called Immediate Alerts is running on the site that does
> > work. But ther is no Timer job called Immediate Alerts running on the Site
> > that doen't work.
> >
> > Do the other people having this problem see the Immediate Alerts timer job
> > in the job Definitions? I'm pretty sure this is the issue.
> >
> > Now... how to fix it?
> > "Wouter" wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > My eventCache has 1287 records in cue. Not that many. Starting from 02 may
> > > 2007.
> > >
> > > This is also the date that the ForeFront evaluation expired on our
> > > SharePoint server. Oh boy do I wonder...
> > >
> > > However I do not have permissions to remove ForeFront. So I'll have to wait
> > > until our 'all knowing' sysadmin is back and gives his approval.

(maybe I
> > > should create a workflow for that..hehe)
> > >
> > > --Wouter
> > >
> > >
> > > "Tim" wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi Wouter --
> > > >
> > > > Over on one of the Yahoo boards I caught a scenario where a list appeared to
> > > > be overloading the alert system. In that scenario around 400k alerts had
> > > > made their way into the alert EventCache table in the span of a few days.
> > > > One specific site appeared to be the root cause and was dumping large numbers
> > > > of alets into the table every 30 seconds or so. The user went into that
> > > > site, cleared the alerts, and then stood back. Aparently the alerts started
> > > > working again after this step. One of the symptoms he noticed is that the
> > > > alerts were getting listed in the EventCache table but never making it to teh
> > > > EventLog table (which I guess is supposed to happen after a given alert is
> > > > sent.)
> > > >
> > > > To the best of my knowledge this description doesn't match my situation, but
> > > > for what it's worth, it might be worth checking out.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > "Wouter" wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Same issue on our intranet as well.
> > > > >
> > > > > - 'Alert me' setup mails are send
> > > > > - Mails send by an Approval workflow in a sub-site work fine.
> > > > >
> > > > > So the configuration of the mail server seems to be correct. But stilll some
> > > > > MOSS 2007 mail functionality appears to be broken on our installation.
> > > > >
> > > > > - 'Alert me' emails set on the pages library are not send.
> > > > > - Emails send by a workflow I created in SharePoint Designer (*evil*) do not
> > > > > send either. Since all the other actions in the workflow are executed
> > > > > correctly I can confirm that the workflow is triggered , works without errors
> > > > > and even gets marked as 'completed'.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > Other info
> > > > > - There is one user that sometimes does receive his Alert me notification.
> > > > > He is in the same domain / usergroup as all the others. No special characters
> > > > > nor does he has elevated priviliges on any other system (sharepoint,
> > > > > exchange, AD, ..)
> > > > > - net stop sptimer resulted in "Specified service does not exists...'
> > > > > - No obvious error entries in the SharePoint logs or in the Virusscanner logs
> > > > > - Same behaviour when virusscanner is turned off.
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > "Anthony" wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Hi there,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm running WSS 3.0 on an SBS machine. Users who subscribe to alerts in the
> > > > > > document library receive an immediate email informing them of the creation of
> > > > > > the alert. However, they fail to receive any alerts (even when every possible
> > > > > > option for alerting is checked).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I came across some posts suggesting that it might be a problem of the Timer
> > > > > > Service not having access to the content database, but usage processing
> > > > > > (which I understand needs the same requirement) works fine.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Would appreciate some help on this one

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