Topic Last Modified: 2010-08-16

The Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager monitors the Windows Application log on computers running Exchange 2010 and generates this alert when the events specified in the following Details table are logged.

To learn more about this alert, in Operations Manager, do one or more of the following:

From the Operations Console, double-click this alert, and then click the General tab. Review the description of the alert that includes the variables specific to your environment.
From the Operations Console, double-click this alert, and then click the Alert Context tab. Review the logged events that meet the criteria of this Operations Manager alert.

Details

Product Name	Exchange
Product Version	14.0 (Exchange 2010)
Event ID	1001
Event Source	MSExchangeTransport
Alert Type	Warning
Rule Path	Microsoft Exchange Server/Exchange 2010/Common Components/Hub Transport and Edge Transport/Transport
Rule Name	The SmtpReceive process failed to start listening on a configured binding because the specified address is already in use.

Explanation

This Error event indicates that the specified combination of IP address and port number is being used by another process on the server.

Each Receive connector on a Exchange Hub Transport server or on an Edge Transport server must use a unique combination of IP addresses and port numbers to listen for inbound connections from remote SMTP messaging servers.

If other SMTP messaging services are running on this server, they may be using an IP address and port number combination that conflicts with an existing Receive connector. For example, the default Receive connector on an Edge Transport server is configured to use 0.0.0.0:25. The default Receive connectors on a Hub Transport server are configured to use 0.0.0.0:25 and 0.0.0.0:587.

User Action

To resolve this error do one or more of the following:

Remove or relocate any other SMTP messaging services that are running on this server.
Configure any other SMTP messaging services that must run on this Hub Transport server or on this Edge Transport server to use an IP address and port number combination that does not conflict with any Receive connectors that are configured on the server.
Configure the Receive connectors on this Hub Transport server or on this Edge Transport server to use an IP address and port number combination that does not conflict with any other SMTP messaging services that must run on this server.

For more information, see Understanding Receive Connectors.

For More Information

If you are not already doing so, consider running the Exchange tools created to help you analyze and troubleshoot your Exchange environment. These tools can help make sure that your configuration aligns with Microsoft best practices. They can also help you identify and resolve performance issues, improve mail flow, and better manage disaster recovery scenarios. To run these tools, go to the Toolbox node of the Exchange Management Console. To learn more about these tools, see Managing Tools in the Toolbox.