Monitoring of MS Exchange

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list Johann Eggers · Wed, 18 Apr 2007 15:42:54 +0200 ·

Hello Hobbits and friends,

 
is there anybody out there who is monitoring MS Exchange servers with
Hobbit?

 
Unfortunately I have no skills in VB-scripting, nor knowledge of
MS-Exchange in what is worth to monitor and how to do it.

 
Any help/hint is very much appreciated!

 
Regards

Johann

list Tod Hansmann · Wed, 18 Apr 2007 08:20:00 -0600 ·

For all our exchange boxes we monitor imap, smtp, pop3, ldaps, and dns-d (since we make it a DNS server as well).  Your mileage may vary.

Tod Hansmann
Network Engineer
DirectPointe, Inc

▸ quoted from Johann Eggers

From: Johann Eggers [mailto:user-769b09132207@xymon.invalid] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 7:43 AM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Monitoring of MS Exchange

Hello Hobbits and friends,

is there anybody out there who is monitoring MS Exchange servers with Hobbit?

Unfortunately I have no skills in VB-scripting, nor knowledge of MS-Exchange in what is worth to monitor and how to do it.

Any help/hint is very much appreciated!

Regards
Johann

list Quark IT - Hilton Travis · Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:40:37 +1000 ·

Hi Tod,

We're looking at doing that monitoring for a start, but then being able to monitor queue depths and other stats to get a better look at what Exchange is running like.  Do you not monitor more than basic "availability" things such as smtp on your Exchange boxes?

Actually, the same goes for AD, SQL, ISA and so on - we'd loike to be able to monitor more than just basic availability.  The functionality that WMI provides is great, but getting BBWin/hobbit to use it is where I'm out of my depth.  Hence some of my other questions - I'm seeing where this project stands right now and where its going before I invest a lot of (scare) time in something that's simply not suitable for our needs.

Regards,

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-----Original Message-----
From: Tod Hansmann [mailto:user-b6e28cb93fa4@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:20 AM

▸ quoted from Tod Hansmann


For all our exchange boxes we monitor imap, smtp, pop3, ldaps, and dns-d (since we make it a DNS server as well).  Your mileage may vary.

Tod Hansmann
Network Engineer
DirectPointe, Inc

From: Johann Eggers [mailto:user-769b09132207@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 7:43 AM

Hello Hobbits and friends,
 
is there anybody out there who is monitoring MS Exchange servers with Hobbit?
 
Unfortunately I have no skills in VB-scripting, nor knowledge of MS-Exchange in what is worth to monitor and how to do it.
 
Any help/hint is very much appreciated!
 
Regards
Johann

list Tod Hansmann · Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:57:22 -0600 ·

There's nothing built in to hobbit to check detailed information on Exchange other than services like smtp and whatnot.  Whereas big brother would just check if a port was listening, hobbit has the ability to pass information across and check responses, so that extends it beyond just "basic" availability in my mind, but to each his own.

You could easily write some scripts to check such things, and the BBWin client might have some functionality (we don't use it at the moment), but that's outside the realm of my experience with hobbit.  Apologies for not knowing it as well as I should on that end.  
If you find anything that does check more in depth, that would be quite interesting.  I'm sure it's been done before.

Tod Hansmann
Network Engineer

▸ quoted from Quark IT - Hilton Travis

  -----Original Message-----
From: Quark IT - Hilton Travis [mailto:user-48451493fafd@xymon.invalid] Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 8:41 PM
To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: RE: [hobbit] Monitoring of MS Exchange

Hi Tod,

We're looking at doing that monitoring for a start, but then being able to monitor queue depths and other stats to get a better look at what Exchange is running like.  Do you not monitor more than basic "availability" things such as smtp on your Exchange boxes?

Actually, the same goes for AD, SQL, ISA and so on - we'd loike to be able to monitor more than just basic availability.  The functionality that WMI provides is great, but getting BBWin/hobbit to use it is where I'm out of my depth.  Hence some of my other questions - I'm seeing where this project stands right now and where its going before I invest a lot of (scare) time in something that's simply not suitable for our needs.

Regards,

Hilton Travis                          Phone: +XX (X)X XXXX XXXX
(Brisbane, Australia)                  Phone: +XX (X)XXX XXX XXX
Manager, Quark IT                      http://www.quarkit.com.au
         Quark AudioVisual             http://www.quarkav.net

War doesn't determine who is right.  War determines who is left.

This document and any attachments are for the intended recipient
  only.  It may contain confidential, privileged or copyright      material which must not be disclosed or distributed.

                    Quark Group Pty. Ltd.
      T/A Quark Automation, Quark AudioVisual, Quark IT

-----Original Message-----
From: Tod Hansmann [mailto:user-b6e28cb93fa4@xymon.invalid] Sent: Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:20 AM

For all our exchange boxes we monitor imap, smtp, pop3, ldaps, and dns-d (since we make it a DNS server as well).  Your mileage may vary.

Tod Hansmann
Network Engineer
DirectPointe, Inc

From: Johann Eggers [mailto:user-769b09132207@xymon.invalid]
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 7:43 AM

Hello Hobbits and friends,

is there anybody out there who is monitoring MS Exchange servers with Hobbit?

Unfortunately I have no skills in VB-scripting, nor knowledge of MS-Exchange in what is worth to monitor and how to do it.

Any help/hint is very much appreciated!

Regards
Johann

list S Aiello · Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:12:16 -0400 ·

▸ quoted from Tod Hansmann

On Thursday 19 April 2007 09:57, Tod Hansmann wrote:

There's nothing built in to hobbit to check detailed information on
Exchange other than services like smtp and whatnot.  Whereas big brother
would just check if a port was listening, hobbit has the ability to pass
information across and check responses, so that extends it beyond just
"basic" availability in my mind, but to each his own.

You could easily write some scripts to check such things, and the BBWin
client might have some functionality (we don't use it at the moment), but
that's outside the realm of my experience with hobbit.  Apologies for not
knowing it as well as I should on that end.

If you find anything that does check more in depth, that would be quite
interesting.  I'm sure it's been done before.

Tod Hansmann
Network Engineer

The only way I can see this being done is via a vbscript, polling the Windows 
Performance Libraries.  I do not have access to an Exchange server, so I am 
unsure that there are Exchange specific PerfLib objects, but knowing MS there 
are.

I do the same thing for polling IIS for perf stats, so it would be possible I 
think.

~Steve

list Charles Goyard · Thu, 19 Apr 2007 16:19:12 +0200 ·

Hi,

▸ quoted from Johann Eggers


Johann Eggers wrote :

is there anybody out there who is monitoring MS Exchange servers with
Hobbit?

You can monitor Exchange with SNMP. Either inside "devmon"
(http://devmon.sourceforge.net/) or in a custom script.

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Orange Business Services - online multimedia  // ingénierie

list David Gilmore · Thu, 19 Apr 2007 11:51:18 -0400 ·

There is one script on deadcat.net that I am aware of the will give some
insight on your Exchange server database size.  This is not as a big an
issue since the release of E2k3 SP2, but it still is something to keep an
eye one.  There may be other scripts there as well, but I have not looked in
sometime.

 
I am sure there are plenty of WMI counters that can be checked for Exchange,
and know that other products leverage those counters.   The most obvious one
is MOM from Microsoft, but also n-Able is a good third party solution, just
very expensive.

 
David

 
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▸ quoted from Tod Hansmann

To: user-ae9b8668bcde@xymon.invalid
Subject: [hobbit] Monitoring of MS Exchange

Hello Hobbits and friends,

is there anybody out there who is monitoring MS Exchange servers with
Hobbit?

Unfortunately I have no skills in VB-scripting, nor knowledge of MS-Exchange
in what is worth to monitor and how to do it.

Any help/hint is very much appreciated!

Regards

Johann

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