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.

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-----Original Message----- From: Tod Hansmann [mailto:thansmann at directpointe.com] 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

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From: Johann Eggers [mailto:Johann.Eggers at teleatlas.com] 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

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