Check_nt & Microsoft Exchange 6.5

[Phil Costelloe]

Mark Duffy wrote:
> Firstly, thanks for the reply:
> 
>> Based on that document, I've set up the following commands. I'm not
>> really sure how well they're working (they always return 0 on the
>> quiet Exchange box I'm using them on so far) so I'd be interested to
>> hear how you get on.
> 
> It seems no matter what queue you enter to check you always get a
> value of 0 returned, check a queue that doesn't exist and you still
> get a 0, you can also pause the queues in system manager and still
> get values of 0 returned for the queues   

The queues you see in Exchange System Manager don't seem to be exactly
represented in the Windows performance counters so you can't directly
monitor the queues as seen in the Exchange Queue Viewer, which is a
shame since every internal Exchange metric seems to be exposed except
the ones that Exchange itself displays to you.

But I've just done some testing and found the opposite to your
experience. If I freeze an SMTP Connector queue in System Manager, the
Nagios check "Exchange SMTP remote queues"
(\\SMTP Server(_Total)\\Remote Queue Length) goes up in sync with the
number of messages held in the queue. If I freeze the Local Delivery
queue in System Manager, the Nagios check "Exchange SMTP local queues"
(\\SMTP Server(_Total)\\Local Queue Length) goes up in sync with the
number of messages held in the queue.

Phil
 
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