I have been looking around the forum for possible solutions to this question but I keep getting the opposite (send email on server reboot) answer to my query.
In our environment we have a server that processes batch jobs from an external company. It basically runs a print spooler for an external mainframe. Occasionally the server will have an issue that prevents it from preforming this function and a reboot is the only known fix. When this happens we have found no internal way of knowing about the issue. (I've checked all possible events and logs around the failure.) The only way we know there is an issue is when the external company emails us to tell us there is an issue connecting to the server service. Since the server is of little importance when it's not processing jobs and because the jobs are time sensitive we would like to have the server reboot automatically when we receive the email from the outside company. If possible we would like to secure it by keying off a specific subject line and/or sender address, but those are minor concerns.
Is it even possible to send an email to the alert engine is a meaningful way?