sorry I never realized I was in the Report Services forum.

I'll repost under Admin.

Thanks for your help.

Its a named instance. I can ping the virtual ip and the physical one as well locally and remotely...

I've tried machinename\instancename and machinename\virtualinstancename and none of them work...

Sorry I should have been more specific... The SQL Server iS 2005 running on a Windows Server (v 2003). The scenario I am looking for is when the...

Just something to maybe email me or even page out when the SQL Agent or the SQL Server goes down. Notification Services has been uninstalled so can't use that......