EM7 Highlight: Dynamic Applications for Microsoft Exchange

Take your monitoring to the next level using EM7 Dynamic Applications.

Dynamic Apps are best-practice based monitoring templates for servers, applications, network devices and other data center hardware and software used for storage, environmental monitoring, virtualization, storage, etc . They are built right into the EM7 appliance and activated by the Dynamic Discovery process. Through intelligent automation, EM7 is “smart” enough to recognize what’s running on your network and automatically apply monitoring rules, event and notification policies to networked devices. This tool allows customers ultimate flexibility to expand the EM7 monitoring platform to any device that can be polled using SNMP, ICMP or XML.

Every EM7 installation includes a set of Dynamic Apps for Microsoft Exchange monitoring and management. Used in conjunction with the EM7 WMI and Windows Advanced agents, the Exchange Dynamic Apps provide deeper insight into the availability and performance of your Exchange servers and application.

EXCHANGE DYNAMIC APPS AND SAMPLE COLLECTED DATA

CONFIGURATION DYNAMIC APPS - REQUIRE EM7 WMI AGENT

MS Exchange - WMI DS Access

- Is the Domain Controller response time fast? Synchronized? Up?
- Is the LDAP port listening for requests?

MS Exchange - WMI Folder Tree

- Storage Groups
- Top-Level Hierarchy Name
- Root Folder URL

MS Exchange - WMI Logon

- Client NIC Speed, IP, Mode, Name, Version
- Latency
- User Accounts

MS Exchange - WMI Mailbox

- Mailbox Name and Size
- Storage Limit
- Total Number of Items

MS Exchange - WMI Queues

- Mail Queue Size
- How long have messages been waiting for transfer?
- Has the queue stopped?

MS Exchange - WMI Server

- Exchange Version
- Is Message Tracking enabled?
- Is Subject Logging enabled?

PERFORMANCE DYNAMIC APPS - REQUIRE EM7 WINDOWS ADVANCED AGENT

MS Exchange - Adv DB

- DB Reads/Writes per Second
- DB Sessions in Use
- DB Table Opens per Second

MS Exchange - Adv Information Store

- RPC Average Latency
- # of RPC Requests
- Current Active User Count

MS Exchange - Adv OWA

- Authentications per Second
- Message Opens per Second
- Message Sends per Second

MS Exchange - Adv SMTP Queues

- # Messages in Queue
- Shows messages waiting in queue for the last 24 hours and daily over the last 30 days

Customer Tip:

Use the performance trend information reported in the MS Exchange – Adv SMTP Queues over a period of time (30 days, 60 days, etc) to determine a messages queue threshold specific to your Exchange environment. Use the Alerts tab to create a custom event to be notified when this messages queue threshold is exceeded.

Check out the Exchange Dynamic Apps for yourself for a complete list of what data is collected and more ideas and how they could work for you.