Using Nagios to monitor Exchange 2007 Queues, etc.. ??
shadih rahman
shadhin71 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 7 03:57:51 CEST 2009
Here is a great doc for monitoring windows services. Hope this helps
http://nagioswiki.com/wiki/index.php/Nagios_Checks_for_Exchange_Server_200x
On Mon, Oct 5, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Kevin Keane <subscription at kkeane.com>wrote:
> I've heard occasional reports of that happening. A couple things to check:
>
> - Make sure you applied all the latest updates and patches to Windows
> (not just the critical or important ones that are installed
> automatically, but also the optional ones). The plugin depends on some
> recent versions of Windows libraries. Note: you do NOT need IE 8,
> Silverlight or the like if you want to keep those off your servers.
> - Try and download the Visual C++ redistributables. For the 32-bit
> version, go to
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/DOWNLOADS/details.aspx?FamilyID=9b2da534-3e03-4391-8a4d-074b9f2bc1bf&displaylang=en
> .
> The link to the 64 bit version is at the bottom of that page.
> - Re-download the plugin. It could have been corrupted.
> - Check that there are no permission issues.
>
> I hope that helps!
>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin
>
> Mirza Dedic wrote:
> > Hi Kevin,
> >
> > I have downloaded your TNT plugins 1.2.4-x64 for my x64 Win2003 R2,
> however when I try to run something like "check_exchange" from the command
> prompt to see any output I get...
> >
> > C:\NSClient\tnt_plugins_1.2.4-x64>check_exchange.exe
> > The system cannot execute the specified program.
> >
> > Any idea why this is happening?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin Keane [mailto:subscription at kkeane.com]
> > Sent: October/03/2009 5:12 PM
> > Cc: 'nagios-users at lists.sourceforge.net'
> > Subject: Re: [Nagios-users] Using Nagios to monitor Exchange 2007 Queues,
> etc.. ??
> >
> > Check out my TNTMonitoringPlugin project on Sourceforge. There is a
> > plugin specifically to monitor Exchange. It handles both Exchange 2003
> > and Exchange 2007. It does monitor queue lengths as well as a few other
> > factors, but the focus is not really so much on load. Queue length
> > primarily is an indicator of network problems. A long send queue, in
> > particular, tells me that the Internet connection is down, or something
> > along those lines.
> >
> > If you look at the source code for the plugin, you can also see the WMI
> > query used.
> >
> > Mirza Dedic wrote:
> >
> >> I cannot seem to find any solid information with Google.com on how to
> monitor my Exchange 2007 server, I am interested in knowing the send/receive
> queues, mainly to know the load at any certain time...
> >>
> >> On the box, I have NSClient++ installed (0.3.7) and I am already
> monitoring windows services, disk/memory/cpu; but I would like to have
> nagios look under the roof of the exchange server, and get me some #s for
> queue lengths.
> >>
> >> I guess this would be accomplished by WMI? I have not used WMI with
> NSClient++ before, does anyone have this setup in their environment for
> Exchange (or even IIS/ISA)?
> >>
> >> Please give some examples.
> >>
> >> Thank you..
> >>
> >>
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