Mail Flow Troubleshooting

NSLOOKUP
At the command prompt type “NSLOOKUP “.
This will give you a “>” prompt.
Type “set type=MX “.
Type “microsoft.com “.
You should now get the MX records for “microsoft.com”:
Non-authoritative answer:
microsoft.com MX preference = 10, mail exchanger = microsoft-com.mail.protection.outlook.com

microsoft-com.mail.protection.outlook.com internet address = 207.46.163.215
microsoft-com.mail.protection.outlook.com internet address = 207.46.163.247
microsoft-com.mail.protection.outlook.com internet address = 207.46.163.138

Or Use who.is:
http://who.is/

Telnet:
Using Telnet from Windows to test port 25, from the command prompt window type:

telnet server port
Example:
telnet mail.eircom.net 25
or whoever the SP is ..

TELNET – BLACKLISTED:
521 connection rejected
Connection to host lost.

Blacklist lookup/release:
http://www.fortiguard.com/static/ip_lookup.html

Tools:
http://mxtoolbox.com/NetworkTools.aspx

EMC XtremIO – Changing Cluster, XMS & Storage Controller Name(s) & IP(s)

Change the Xtremio Cluster Name:
xmcli (tech)> show-clusters-info
Cluster-Name
XTREMIO_1234

xmcli (tech)> rename cluster-id=”XTREMIO_1234″ new-name=”XTREMIO_4321″
Object XTREMIO_1234 [1] renamed to XTREMIO_4321

xmcli (tech)> show-clusters-info
Cluster-Name
XTREMIO_4321

Change XMS IP Address:
xmcli (tech)> modify-ip-addresses xms-ip-sn=”192.168.0.10/24″

Change Storage Controller Name:
xmcli (tech)> show-storage-controllers
SC Name:
X1-SC1
X1-SC2
Example of renaming both storage controllers for X-Brick-1:
xmcli (tech)> rename sc-id=”X1-SC1″ new-name=”XBrick1-SC1″
xmcli (tech)> rename sc-id=”X1-SC1″ new-name=”XBrick1-SC2″

Change Storage Controller IP Address:
Using the ‘modify-ip-addresses’ cmd:
xmcli (tech)> modify-ip-addresses sc-ip-list=[sc-id=1 sc-ip-sn=”192.168.0.1/24″,sc-id=2 sc-ip-sn=”192.168.0.2/24″]
Change the IPMI IP Address:
xmcli (tech)> modify-ip-addresses sc-ip-list=[sc-id=1 ipmi-ip-sn=”192.168.1.1/24″,sc-id=2 ipmi-ip-sn=”192.168.1.2/24″]

EMC XtremIO – Configuring DNS & NTP

Setting DNS

xmcli (tech)> modify-dns-servers primary=”10.10.10.1″ secondary=”10.10.10.1″
xmcli (tech)> show-dns-servers

Setting NTP
Set date & time:
xmcli (tech)> modify-datetime datetime=”2014-11-07 11:00:48″

Set timezone:
List all timezones available:
xmcli (tech)> show-timezones
xmcli (tech)> modify-datetime timezone=”Europe/Paris”

Set NTP Servers:
xmcli (tech)> modify-datetime ntp-servers=[“10.10.10.101″,”10.10.10.102”]

Display time config:
xmcli (tech)> show-datetime
Mode NTP-Servers Cluster-Time Cluster-Time-Zone
automatic 10.10.10.10110.10.10.102 2014-11-07 11:07:08 CET Europe/Paris