Mail Servers

Applications Manager supports monitoring of the following Mail Servers

• Exchange Server [ 2003 | 2007 ]

• Mail Server

It performs the following checks to ensure its availability and represents the information in the form of graphs. Availability tab, gives the Availability history for the past 24 hours or 30 days. Performance tab gives the Health Status and events for the past 24 hours or 30 days. List view enables you to perform bulk admin configurations. Click on the individual monitors listed, to view the following information.

Exchange Server 2003

• Connects to system in which Exchange Server is running, to check availability of the Exchange Server. Checks for the availability of the following services:

  
  

  • MS Exchange Information Store

  • MS Exchange Site Replication Store

  • MS Exchange MTA Stacks

  • MS Exchange Management

  • SMTP

  • POP3

  • IMAP4

  • MS Exchange System Attendant

  • MS Exchange Routing Engine

  • MS Exchange Event Service

  
  

• You can view the performance data as attributes of the system via reports and graphs. The following table gives the various data that is being monitored:

   

  SMTP Connections	Inbound Connections Outbound Connections
  Message Transfer Agent Connections	Inbound Associations Outbound Associations
  POP & IMAP Connections	POP Connections IMAP Connections
  Information Store Connections & Users	Active Connections Active Users
  SMTP Stats	Local Retry Queue Length Remote Retry Queue Length Remote Queue Length Messages Pending Routing Messages in Local Delivery Currently Undeliverable Messages Categorizer Queue Length
  MTA Stats	Work Queue Length Message Bytes Per Sec TCP/IP Received Bytes Per sec TCP/IP Transmit Bytes Per sec Total Recipients Queued Work Queue Bytes Queue Length Queued Bytes
  Information Store Stats	Messages from MTA to IS Messages from IS to MTA Messages Pending Local Delivery Messages Received Per sec Messages Sent Per sec HSOT Cache Hits
  Information Store Mailbox Stats	Receive Queue Size Send Queue Size Messages Delivered Per min Messages Sent Per min Logon Operations Per sec Used Disk Space
  Directory & Event Service Stats	Pending Replication Synchronizations Remaining Replication Updates Notify Queue AddressLists Queue Length
  Information Store Public Folder Stats	Receive Queue Size Send Queue Size Messages Delivered Per min Messages Sent Per min Logon Operations Per sec Used Disk Space

Exchange Server 2007

• Connects to system in which Exchange Server is running, to check availability of the Exchange Server. Checks for the availability of the following services:

  
  

  • MS Exchange Active Directory Topology

  • MS Exchange Anti-spam Update

  • MS Exchange EdgeSync

  • MS Exchange File Distribution

  • MS Exchange Mailbox Assistants

  • POP3

  • IMAP4

  • MS Exchange Information Store

  • MS Exchange Mail Submission

  • MS Exchange Monitoring

  • MS Exchange Replication Service

  • MS Exchange System Attendant

  • MS Exchange Search Indexer

  • MS Exchange Service Host

  • MS Exchange Transport

  • MS Exchange Transport Log Search

  • MS Exchange ADAM

  • MS Exchange Credential Service

  • MS Exchange Speech Engine

  • MS Exchange Unified

  • Messaging MS Search (Exchange)
    

• You can view the performance data as attributes of the system via reports and graphs. The following table gives the various data that is being monitored:

   

  SMTP Connections	Inbound Connections Outbound Connections Messages Sent Per second Messages Received Per second
  POP & IMAP Connections	POP Connections IMAP Connections
  Transport Queue Stats	Active Mailbox Delivery Queue Length Retry Mailbox Delivery Queue Length Retry Remote Delivery Queue Length Messages Queued for Delivery Per Second Messages Submitted Per Second Items Queued For Delivery Per Second
  Cache Stats	No. of Cache Active Connections No. of Cache Idle Connections No. of Cache Connections Cache Total Capacity RPC Requests Sent Per Seconds RPC Requests Outstanding RPC Latency Average ms
  Availability Stats	Availability Requests Per Second Mailbox Session Hits Public Folder Queries Per Second Public Folder Request Failures Per Second
  Active Directory Access Stats	Cache Hits Per Second Cache Misses Per Second LDAP Searches Per Second Outstanding Asynchronous Reads

Mail Server

• Connects to the Mail Server and performs both SMTP and POP operations, by sending and fetching test mails.

• Checks both SMTP and POP servers to ensure availability.

• Enables performance management by monitoring the response time of the server and updates the status based on a given threshold.

See Also

Creating New Monitor - Mail Servers