Fine, but a human evaluation of when the failure starts and ends is sufficient for recording purposes. As I recall, the question was about monitoring how long Exchange is up, not whether or how well its services are performing. If one needs to monitor Exchange for performance and availability, that's a whole different kettle of fish.
Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean Cunningham Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 5:32 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Stats Exchange comprises a number of things http/https/smtp/pop3/imap as well as native mapi client and various services. Additionally connectors and queues. You could look at something like GFI network monitor (www.gfi.com) to monitor these from an external-to-exchange perspective. You could also use the tools within the system manager to to notify events within the exchaneg environment -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Orin Rehorst Sent: Wednesday, 18 August 2004 9:54 a.m. To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Stats Hand-written reporting sounds good because a user intuitively knows when Exchange is down. Exchange has alot of parts, so how would a system determine when it is down? For databases we run queries to make sure the database is responding. If you monitor the Exchange IS service, does that mean Exchange is up? Orin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Steven Dickenson Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 3:04 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Stats Agreed. However, the original question seems a little confusing. Orin, do you want to monitor uptime statistics, or do you want real-time notification of failure? For the former, the MS uptime tool and a hand-written log work great. For the latter, there are many on the market. I prefer IPMonitor. Steven --- Steven Dickenson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Computer Network Manager The Key School, Annapolis Maryland -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ed Crowley [MVP] Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 3:01 PM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: RE: Stats All those pricey tools are fine for this but equally good is a spiral-bound server log into which you write down when the servers go down and come up. Your outages should be so infrequent that you shouldn't be getting writer's cramp. Ed Crowley MCSE+Internet MVP Freelance E-Mail Philosopher Protecting the world from PSTs and Bricked Backups!T -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Orin Rehorst Sent: Tuesday, August 17, 2004 11:14 AM To: Exchange Discussions Subject: Stats Gadzooks! We provide network component uptime stats, and bandwidth utilization. Now Mgmt wants Exchange uptime stats. 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