I have got a funny problem on an ASR9K :
I try to run the sendmail.tcl script to receive an email upon config changes.
I must say that the event is triggered properly and all is running ok except when EEM tries to reach my SMTP server :
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR1(config)#no int loo 65000
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR1(config)#commit
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:Mar 20 16:47:31.725 : config[65808]: %MGBL-CONFIG-6-DB_COMMIT : Configuration committed by user 'cisco'. Use 'show configuration commit changes 1000000994' to view the changes.
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR1(config)#
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:Mar 20 16:47:34.212 : config[65808]: %MGBL-SYS-5-CONFIG_I : Configured from console by cisco on vty0 (192.168.127.42)
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR1#
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR1#RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:Mar 20 16:47:35.329 : sendmail.tcl[65821]: Creating mail header...
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR1#
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR1#
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR1#sh tcp brie
Sat Mar 20 16:47:41.587 EDT
PCB VRF-ID Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State
<...>
0x5013e0c4 0x60000000 0 0 wrong_src_addr smtp_server:25 SYNSENT
<...>
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR1#
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR1#RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:Mar 20 16:48:05.344 : sendmail.tcl[65821]: smtp_send_email: error connecting to mail server: cannot connect to all the candidate mail servers
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR1#
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR1#sh event manager environment _email_ipaddr
Sat Mar 20 17:29:41.287 EDT
right_src_addr
RP/0/RSP0/CPU0:ASR1#
As per the output above, the sendmail script opens a socket with the source ip address of the nearest itf to the smtp server, and does not take into account the _email_ipaddr environment variable.
Is there a way to correct this ?
Thx
