RE: Total messages handled by Exchange

2009-05-06 Thread Campbell, Rob 
Sorry, that last line in the script should have been"

$totalmsgs += $stats.msgcount


From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:45 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Total messages handled by Exchange

I've only got 3 HT servers, all within one state, and well connected.  I'm 
running it on one server and having it pull the logs from the other servers.  
Running it locally on each one should be easily do-able.  You'll just have to 
add some code at the end to copy out the resulting file to a central location.

The totaling is scripted, and it's a relatively simple process in PS as long if 
you're using .csv files.  You just do an import-csv and reference the columns 
by the column heading names like they were properties.

If I've got 30 .csv files named mailstats.csv  and they all have a column 
named "msgcount" then

$statfiles = gci mailstats*.csv
Foreach ($statfile in $statfiles){
$stats = import-csv $statfile
$totalmsgs += $stats.msg
}

If all you're accumulating is a single value for message count, the I'd just 
use a simple text file and use get-content to read that value, but I think 
you'll find that once you start gathering stats from those logs you'll want to 
get more than just one piece of information while you're at it.

I'm getting ready to add some code that will look at the DL expansion events, 
and start keeping track of the last time a DL was used so we can start cleaning 
up the list of distribution groups and mail-enabled security groups that never 
actually get used.

From: Barsodi.John [mailto:john.bars...@igt.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:25 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Total messages handled by Exchange

Interesting... are you running this on each Hub Transport server?  I have HT 
servers all over the world, so I'd have to run this locally and then copy to a 
central location then do more data massaging.  How are you handling the 
totaling?  Are you doing this manually or by script?  How many HT servers are 
you running against?


- John Barsodi
From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 9:13 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Total messages handled by Exchange

I run a PS script that does this.

It runs as a scheduled task in the early am, pulls the message tracking logs 
for the previous day, and reads through the log entries and accumulates the 
message counts into a csv.  At the end of the month, it pulls all the daily 
csv's back in and creates a monthly total report.


I'm doing it per user, and splitting it out between internal and external for 
both sent and received, as both message counts and total bytes, so what you're 
after should be considerably easier if all you're after is just message counts.


From: Barsodi.John [mailto:john.bars...@igt.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:03 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Total messages handled by Exchange

So I have a request from my management to start tracking total Messages handled 
by Exchange on a monthly basis.  I know there are software packages like Quest 
MessageStats that will easily produce this for me, however we have $0 in the 
budget for this.

Wondering if anyone has had to produce this type of data and how they went 
about it?

I'm running Exchange 2007 SP1 and have 10 Hub Transport servers across our 
Enterprise and I have journaling enabled for our Archive system.  Our Archive 
System reports unique/deduplicated messages, not total messages that would see 
transport in Exchange.

Any ideas would be helpful.

TIA.

- John Barsodi



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RE: Total messages handled by Exchange

2009-05-06 Thread Campbell, Rob 
I've only got 3 HT servers, all within one state, and well connected.  I'm 
running it on one server and having it pull the logs from the other servers.  
Running it locally on each one should be easily do-able.  You'll just have to 
add some code at the end to copy out the resulting file to a central location.

The totaling is scripted, and it's a relatively simple process in PS as long if 
you're using .csv files.  You just do an import-csv and reference the columns 
by the column heading names like they were properties.

If I've got 30 .csv files named mailstats.csv  and they all have a column 
named "msgcount" then

$statfiles = gci mailstats*.csv
Foreach ($statfile in $statfiles){
$stats = import-csv $statfile
$totalmsgs += $stats.msg
}

If all you're accumulating is a single value for message count, the I'd just 
use a simple text file and use get-content to read that value, but I think 
you'll find that once you start gathering stats from those logs you'll want to 
get more than just one piece of information while you're at it.

I'm getting ready to add some code that will look at the DL expansion events, 
and start keeping track of the last time a DL was used so we can start cleaning 
up the list of distribution groups and mail-enabled security groups that never 
actually get used.

From: Barsodi.John [mailto:john.bars...@igt.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:25 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Total messages handled by Exchange

Interesting... are you running this on each Hub Transport server?  I have HT 
servers all over the world, so I'd have to run this locally and then copy to a 
central location then do more data massaging.  How are you handling the 
totaling?  Are you doing this manually or by script?  How many HT servers are 
you running against?


- John Barsodi
From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 9:13 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Total messages handled by Exchange

I run a PS script that does this.

It runs as a scheduled task in the early am, pulls the message tracking logs 
for the previous day, and reads through the log entries and accumulates the 
message counts into a csv.  At the end of the month, it pulls all the daily 
csv's back in and creates a monthly total report.


I'm doing it per user, and splitting it out between internal and external for 
both sent and received, as both message counts and total bytes, so what you're 
after should be considerably easier if all you're after is just message counts.


From: Barsodi.John [mailto:john.bars...@igt.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:03 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Total messages handled by Exchange

So I have a request from my management to start tracking total Messages handled 
by Exchange on a monthly basis.  I know there are software packages like Quest 
MessageStats that will easily produce this for me, however we have $0 in the 
budget for this.

Wondering if anyone has had to produce this type of data and how they went 
about it?

I'm running Exchange 2007 SP1 and have 10 Hub Transport servers across our 
Enterprise and I have journaling enabled for our Archive system.  Our Archive 
System reports unique/deduplicated messages, not total messages that would see 
transport in Exchange.

Any ideas would be helpful.

TIA.

- John Barsodi



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RE: Total messages handled by Exchange

2009-05-06 Thread Barsodi.John 
Interesting... are you running this on each Hub Transport server?  I have HT 
servers all over the world, so I'd have to run this locally and then copy to a 
central location then do more data massaging.  How are you handling the 
totaling?  Are you doing this manually or by script?  How many HT servers are 
you running against?


- John Barsodi
From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net]
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 9:13 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Total messages handled by Exchange

I run a PS script that does this.

It runs as a scheduled task in the early am, pulls the message tracking logs 
for the previous day, and reads through the log entries and accumulates the 
message counts into a csv.  At the end of the month, it pulls all the daily 
csv's back in and creates a monthly total report.


I'm doing it per user, and splitting it out between internal and external for 
both sent and received, as both message counts and total bytes, so what you're 
after should be considerably easier if all you're after is just message counts.


From: Barsodi.John [mailto:john.bars...@igt.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:03 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Total messages handled by Exchange

So I have a request from my management to start tracking total Messages handled 
by Exchange on a monthly basis.  I know there are software packages like Quest 
MessageStats that will easily produce this for me, however we have $0 in the 
budget for this.

Wondering if anyone has had to produce this type of data and how they went 
about it?

I'm running Exchange 2007 SP1 and have 10 Hub Transport servers across our 
Enterprise and I have journaling enabled for our Archive system.  Our Archive 
System reports unique/deduplicated messages, not total messages that would see 
transport in Exchange.

Any ideas would be helpful.

TIA.

- John Barsodi



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RE: Total messages handled by Exchange

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From: Barsodi.John [mailto:john.bars...@igt.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 12:03 PM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Total messages handled by Exchange

So I have a request from my management to start tracking total Messages handled 
by Exchange on a monthly basis.  I know there are software packages like Quest 
MessageStats that will easily produce this for me, however we have $0 in the 
budget for this.

Wondering if anyone has had to produce this type of data and how they went 
about it?

I'm running Exchange 2007 SP1 and have 10 Hub Transport servers across our 
Enterprise and I have journaling enabled for our Archive system.  Our Archive 
System reports unique/deduplicated messages, not total messages that would see 
transport in Exchange.

Any ideas would be helpful.

TIA.

- John Barsodi



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RE: Total messages handled by Exchange

2009-05-06 Thread Eric Wittersheim 
cool

 

From: Campbell, Rob [mailto:rob_campb...@centraltechnology.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:13 AM 
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: RE: Total messages handled by Exchange

 

I run a PS script that does this.

 

It runs as a scheduled task in the early am, pulls the message tracking
logs for the previous day, and reads through the log entries and
accumulates the message counts into a csv.  At the end of the month, it
pulls all the daily csv's back in and creates a monthly total report.

 

 

I'm doing it per user, and splitting it out between internal and
external for both sent and received, as both message counts and total
bytes, so what you're after should be considerably easier if all you're
after is just message counts.

 



From: Barsodi.John [mailto:john.bars...@igt.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:03 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Total messages handled by Exchange

 

So I have a request from my management to start tracking total Messages
handled by Exchange on a monthly basis.  I know there are software
packages like Quest MessageStats that will easily produce this for me,
however we have $0 in the budget for this.  

 

Wondering if anyone has had to produce this type of data and how they
went about it?

 

I'm running Exchange 2007 SP1 and have 10 Hub Transport servers across
our Enterprise and I have journaling enabled for our Archive system.
Our Archive System reports unique/deduplicated messages, not total
messages that would see transport in Exchange.

 

Any ideas would be helpful.

 

TIA.

 

- John Barsodi

 


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RE: Total messages handled by Exchange

2009-05-06 Thread Campbell, Rob 
I run a PS script that does this.

It runs as a scheduled task in the early am, pulls the message tracking logs 
for the previous day, and reads through the log entries and accumulates the 
message counts into a csv.  At the end of the month, it pulls all the daily 
csv's back in and creates a monthly total report.


I'm doing it per user, and splitting it out between internal and external for 
both sent and received, as both message counts and total bytes, so what you're 
after should be considerably easier if all you're after is just message counts.


From: Barsodi.John [mailto:john.bars...@igt.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 11:03 AM
To: MS-Exchange Admin Issues
Subject: Total messages handled by Exchange

So I have a request from my management to start tracking total Messages handled 
by Exchange on a monthly basis.  I know there are software packages like Quest 
MessageStats that will easily produce this for me, however we have $0 in the 
budget for this.

Wondering if anyone has had to produce this type of data and how they went 
about it?

I'm running Exchange 2007 SP1 and have 10 Hub Transport servers across our 
Enterprise and I have journaling enabled for our Archive system.  Our Archive 
System reports unique/deduplicated messages, not total messages that would see 
transport in Exchange.

Any ideas would be helpful.

TIA.

- John Barsodi


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