<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title></title> </head> <body> Quoting Ryan McHugh <ryan.mchugh@techtell.com>: > > > On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Terry Carmen wrote: > >> Quoting Ryan McHugh <ryan.mchugh@techtell.com>: >> >>> I have been looking for a way to check the status of the Exchange Mailbox >>> Store with out using the check_nt daemon.Â I do not have the option of >>> installing anything on the exchange server at this time but can have WMI / >>> RPC / snmp connections.Â Does anyone know of a way to check and see if the >>> Store is mounted, either directly or indrectly?Â I may have access to the >>> OWA but not POP/IMAP to try a client connect / html parse if there are >>> tools for that. >> >> You can setup auto-reply on a mailbox that lives in the store you're >> monitoring, send it an email and see if you get back the expected >> reply. >> >> There is so much that can go wrong in Exchange that sending it an >> actual email and checking to see if you get the expected response is >> much more reliable than monitoring indirect statistics and settings. >> >> Terry >> > > We already send a message in and have it forwarded back to us. This > does not detect a disconnected mailbox store because the queue > processes the message and drops it back in the outbound queue. Does > the auto-responder still work with a disconnected mailbox store? If the mailbox store is unavailable, the sender should get an NDR, although you would need to verify this, since I haven't tested it. However, If this isn't the case, send an email that should be delivered. The SMTP protocol requires a reject if the delivery fails, which it must if the mailbox store isn't there. Terry </body> </html>