Hi,
I know there's Google and the Microsoft website..... but that's a lot of information and many different opinions.
So, I thought given this is "Experts" exchange..... what parameters do you monitor for the following server types :
(1) File Server
(2) Exchange Server
I'm looking for more of an answer than just the big four (CPU Load, Disk Space, RAM and Network). Don't expect points for that unless you have something really interesting to add... ;-)
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Hi Rohabu.
Thank you for your reply and interesting comments. I spend more time as a Linux sysadmin than a Windows one, so I'm still learning the finer arts of Windows sysadmin such as performance monitoring !
The reason behind the question is indeed to do with monitoring output via SNMP or WMI.
I assume your RPC and Queues suggestion are done via WMI ? Does Exchange need WMI installed/enabled explicitly, or it is done by default ?
Thank you again for your time.
1. For the file server:
- Disk capacity
- Event Viewer
- CPU Performance and Page File Size (from Task manager)
- Physical check (any fault led on the server: hard disk, fan, etc...)
- All automactic mode services are started "services.msc"
- load balancing or Network teaming is u
- Antivirus update signature.
2. For exchange server
- All the above list of file server
- Exchange services ( mainly Information Store, System Attendant, Hub Transport, POP3, SMTP, etc... to be running)
- Mailboxes database size limit (not to exceed 1/4 from Hard disk capacity, for later offline defragmentation)
- User mailbox, if no quota limit is applied, user' mailbox must not exceed 5 GB for performance issues
- telnet the relay server, and make sure that the server can route external messages
there would be lots of checkings to be done, but these are the main daily ones.
Business Accounts
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by: RohabuPosted on 2009-11-03 at 03:48:52ID: 25727973
Hi TwentyFourSeven,
i only reply to the Exchange Server type because i've not yet played around with File Server monitoring to give you an usefull answer (but i think File I/O should be one thing to monitor).
For Exchange the way to implement the following monitoring parameters depends on what you're using to monitor the servers (Operations Manager, Nagios, Whatever)
Additional to the "big four" you should monitor the following:
networkpackages / s - this can show you eventually attacks or loops
interrupts / s - this can indicate a hardware failure when it reaches an unnormal high score
MSexchangeIS RPC Calls / s - this can give you an good overview of the server usage
Exchange Queues - if they reach a definde maximum you get an alarm and can take a look whats wrong with message transferring
Those parameters can be checked and monitored using the Exchange Standard Performance Counters (Perfmon) but i'm sure there are several ways to integrate them in other monitoring solutions.