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<body>Steve & Jan<BR>
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Thanks for your suggestions.<BR>
I'll do some reading and see which solution should work for me.<BR>
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One question though.<BR>
Have you seen any issues on your Exchange server after installing pNSclient or nsclient++?<BR>
I am a bit reluctant to install any third party software of my Exchange server which may cause performance or stability issues.<BR>
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And if anybody has an example script on how to nsclient to monitor exchange SMTP mail queue, etc, it would be great.<BR>
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Appreciate your feedback.<BR>
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/Thomas<BR><BR><BR><BR>> Message: 1<BR>> Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 15:47:43 +1200<BR>> From: "Steve Shipway" <s.shipway@auckland.ac.nz><BR>> Subject: Re: [mrtg] Monitor Exchange 2003 related counters<BR>> To: "Thomas Olsen" <thomas_olsen44@hotmail.com>, "MRTG List"<BR>> <mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch><BR>> Message-ID:<BR>> <12A6FDDD13C460408A6E47E5DB1235A2BF9A5E@UXCHANGE3.UoA.auckland.ac.nz><BR>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"<BR>> <BR>> You can monitor exchage counters in several way.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> We do it by installing the pNSclient or nsclient++ agent on the Exchange<BR>> box, then querying it using the <FONT face="">mrtg-<FONT face="">pnsclient.pl</FONT></FONT> script (get from<BR>> steveshipway.org or included with routers2). You can also do it via<BR>> SNMP if you install the perfMIB extensions (too much trouble for me).<BR>> These methods let you graph any perfmon counter at all, not just<BR>> exchange.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Steve<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Is it possible to monitor and graph any Exchange 2003 related counters<BR>> with MRTG?<BR>> I am primarily thinking about SMTP Queue Length and maybe the amount of<BR>> messages and MegaBytes sent/received on a Routing Group Connector.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> -------------- next part --------------<BR>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...<BR>> URL: http://lists.oetiker.ch/pipermail/mrtg/attachments/20070523/b6e91779/attachment.htm <BR>> <BR>> ------------------------------<BR>> <BR>> Message: 2<BR>> Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 09:30:49 +0200<BR>> From: "Koelstra, J. (Jan)" <JKoelstra@MINSZW.NL><BR>> Subject: Re: [mrtg] Monitor Exchange 2003 related counters<BR>> To: "Thomas Olsen" <thomas_olsen44@hotmail.com>, "MRTG List"<BR>> <mrtg@lists.oetiker.ch><BR>> Message-ID:<BR>> <683B3FF6C774E449A307F8EF7079C467EDDA34@MAILCL1002.MINSZW.NL><BR>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> We do it by using the windows perfmon counters.<BR>> We have perfmon scheduled to gather several counters every 5 minutes and store these in a csv file.<BR>> >From mrtg we run a perl script to get the counter from the csv file.<BR>> <BR>> There used to be a few sites that explained in detail how to setup perfmon and offered scripts to get the data from the csv file into MRTG and create a mrtg config file.<BR>> <BR>> HTH,<BR>> <BR>> Jan.<BR>> <BR><BR><br /><hr />Make every IM count. Download Windows Live Messenger and join the i'm Initiative now. It's free. <a href='http://im.live.com/messenger/im/home/?source=TAGWL_June07' target='_new'>Make it count!</a></body>
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