Default Parameters for O365MailRecverTest

The O365 Mail Receiver test periodically emulates a user on Exchange Online receiving an email that is uniquely tagged.

• Did authentication to the email service fail?
• Was any latency noticed when connecting to the email service?
• Is the receiver's mailbox accessible? Was it able to receive the emulated email successfully? If not, what could have caused the failure?
• Is email reception slow? If so, what could be slowing down email reception - is it because of a delay in connecting to the email service? or is it because Exchange Online is processing incoming email traffic slowly?

This page depicts the default parameters that need to be configured for the O365MailRecverTest test.

• The TEST PERIOD list box helps the user to decide how often this test needs to be executed.

• Specify a unique MAIL TAG in the MAIL TAG text box using which you want to tag the emulated email. This enables eG Enterprise to keep track of the simulated email. To be able to simulate the email activity end-to-end - i.e., from transmission to reception - you should configure both the O365MailRecverTest and the O365MailSenderTest tests with the same MAIL TAG.

• Next, proceed to indicate which mailbox on Exchange Online should receive the emulated email. For this, configure the email ID of the O365 MAIL RECEIVER in the O365 RECEIVER text box. Make sure that you specify the same O365 MAIL RECEIVER for both the O365MailSenderTest and O365MailRecverTest tests.

• The test should be able to access the receiver's mailbox, so it can check whether/not mails with the MAIL TAG have been received by it. To facilitate this check, specify the password of that mailbox in the O365 RECEIVER PASSWORD text box.

• Confirm the password by retyping it in the CONFIRM PASSWORD text box.

• As mentioned already, the test uses the Exchange Online email service to perform the simulation. In order to enable the test to connect to this service, type the WEBSERVICE URL of that service in the WEBSERVICE URL text box.

• By default, the TIMEOUT parameter of the test is set to 30 seconds. This means that, by default, the test will wait for a maximum of 30 seconds to connect to the Exchange Online email service - i.e., to the configured WEBSERVICE URL. If the test is unable to connect to the email service even after the default period lapses, the test will automatically timeout. You can increase or decrease the timeout value, if you so need.

• The DD FREQUENCY parameter refers to the frequency with which detailed diagnosis measures are to be generated for this test. The default is 1:1. This indicates that, by default, detailed measures will be generated every time this test runs, and also every time the test detects a problem. You can modify this frequency, if you so desire. Also, if you intend to disable the detailed diagnosis capability for this test, you can do so by specifying none against DD FREQUENCY .

• Once the above value is provided, click on the UPDATE button to register the changes made.

When changing default configurations of tests, the values with “$” indicate variables that will be replaced by the eG system according to the specific server being managed - for instance, $hostName is the host/nickname of the target host, $port is the port number of the server being monitored. E.g., for a server xyz:80, $hostName will be changed automatically by the eG manager to “xyz*” and $port will be changed to “80” when configuring a test.