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John Sellars
Mar 22, 2018Copper Contributor
Troubleshooting Alerts
I'm using SharePoint 2016 On-Prem and I want to send email (and occasionally SMS) alerts based on activity on my lists and libraries. I've got the email alerts working fine and I've successfully con...
Jeroen Branders
Mar 23, 2018Copper Contributor
Hi John,
Did you check the firewall settings? Maybe the ports are not correct configured and that's the reason why the SMS is not sent?
Make also sure that the number configured in AD is correct, because SharePoint has an invalid phone number the SMS is not sent. Make also sure that you have verbose logging on to see everything in the ULS Logs.
Hopefully i helped you a little bit out.
John Sellars
Mar 27, 2018Copper Contributor
Do you know which ports in particular should be open? I've spoken with my network guy and he feels everything is in order in that regard. I've also checked my profile and my mobile number is shown correctly (e.g. +447768xxxxxx, I've also tried 00447768xxxxxx). Since SharePoint reports that SMS is set up correctly, this really should just work, but it doesn't and I don't know what else there is to check.
- Jeroen BrandersMar 27, 2018Copper Contributor
Normally it is the 443 port with the righ certificate.
What did you see in the event log viewer from your SharePoint server?
If you execute following command Stsadm.exe -o getproperty -url http://192.168.0.33:8080 -pn alerts-enabled what is the output? Are the timer jobs enabled for the alerts?
Thanks for your reply.
- John SellarsMar 27, 2018Copper Contributor
Hello,
With regard to the logs, you might have to narrow that down a bit. Which log in particular?
I get this output when executing the command you gave me:
- Jeroen BrandersMar 27, 2018Copper ContributorHi,
Could you check the application log doe critical errors? And maybe you van automatically start the alert job and check the ULS log for any error?
Kind regards,
Jeroen