email notification on job status

In MSDE, since there is no sql mail, I am thinking of doing the following:
1. write a shell script which will query the sysjobhistory table to
determine if any job failed. If so, then an email about the failure is sent
out.
Question: What should my sql command and my mail command look like. I dont
have much experience in shell scripting or am not very familiar with MSDB
database either.
hi,
inquisite wrote:
> In MSDE, since there is no sql mail, I am thinking of doing the
> following:
> 1. write a shell script which will query the sysjobhistory table to
> determine if any job failed. If so, then an email about the failure
> is sent out.
> Question: What should my sql command and my mail command look like. I
> dont have much experience in shell scripting or am not very familiar
> with MSDB database either.
if an SMPT solution is viable, I'd resort on xp_smpt extended stored
procedure provided at http://sqldev.net/xp/xpsmtp.htm
you can then code your task's step to send a mail on success or failure..
SQL Server MVP Tibor Karaszi presents and describes such a feature at
http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/info_no_mapi.asp
Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
DbaMgr2k ver 0.10.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.56.0
(my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
interface)
-- remove DMO to reply
|||SMTP solution is not available. That is why I wanted to send an email through
some script running on the server.
"Andrea Montanari" wrote:

> hi,
> inquisite wrote:
> if an SMPT solution is viable, I'd resort on xp_smpt extended stored
> procedure provided at http://sqldev.net/xp/xpsmtp.htm
> you can then code your task's step to send a mail on success or failure..
> SQL Server MVP Tibor Karaszi presents and describes such a feature at
> http://www.karaszi.com/sqlserver/info_no_mapi.asp
> --
> Andrea Montanari (Microsoft MVP - SQL Server)
> http://www.asql.biz/DbaMgr.shtmhttp://italy.mvps.org
> DbaMgr2k ver 0.10.0 - DbaMgr ver 0.56.0
> (my vb6+sql-dmo little try to provide MS MSDE 1.0 and MSDE 2000 a visual
> interface)
> -- remove DMO to reply
>
>
|||If an SMTP server is not available then how were you planing to send email?
Jim
"inquisite" <inquisite@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:D7FE12AC-C359-4B74-A8C6-E497686705CB@.microsoft.com...[vbcol=seagreen]
> SMTP solution is not available. That is why I wanted to send an email
> through
> some script running on the server.
> "Andrea Montanari" wrote: