Exchange Server Monitoring

8 Jun 2009 2:07 PM

Tom

Hello,

I have been reading a lot of conflicting information regarding Exchange
Server programming and I am soliciting anybody who can point me in the
correct direction.

We want to create an application that can monitor message throughput and
exchange server loading for 2003 & 2007. The goal is the use C++ COM as the
preferred development platform. We want to capture the following items daily
for the preliminary release.

1. Number of messages sent by the exchange server.
2. Number of messages received by the exchange server
3. Total size of received messages.
4. Total size of sent messages.

I have read so much information (some conflicting) about how to do this
efficiently and I was wondering if anybody can point me in the correct
direction.

I am familiar with OLEDB, MAPI, COM, C++ and all other window architecture.

This application must work for Exchange Server 2003 & 2007.

This application will be used by network administrators.

We have a requirement of no .NET.

Thanks,
Tom

9 Jun 2009 11:51 PM

Glen Scales [MVP]

If you have enabled Message Tracking on a Exchange server then on Exchange
2003 you can use WMI to query the Message tracking logs via
Exchange_MessageTrackingEntry
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa143739(EXCHG.65).aspx or on 2007
you dont have the Exchange WMI class so you need to using the
get-messagetrackinglogs Exchange Management Shell Cmdlets
get-messagetrackinglogs
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997573.aspx. To make these
queries the user will need to have been delegate at least view only admin
rights. The logs files are a simple text format although the format differs
between 2003 and 2007 but you can still read the raw log files. To use the
log file affectedly you need to understand the different events that are
logged eg http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821905.

Cheers
Glen

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"Tom" <t**@gigasoftdevelopment.com> wrote in message
news:uIusqLE6JHA.1416@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Hello,
>
> I have been reading a lot of conflicting information regarding Exchange
> Server programming and I am soliciting anybody who can point me in the
> correct direction.
>
> We want to create an application that can monitor message throughput and
> exchange server loading for 2003 & 2007. The goal is the use C++ COM as
> the
> preferred development platform. We want to capture the following items
> daily
> for the preliminary release.
>
> 1. Number of messages sent by the exchange server.
> 2. Number of messages received by the exchange server
> 3. Total size of received messages.
> 4. Total size of sent messages.
>
> I have read so much information (some conflicting) about how to do this
> efficiently and I was wondering if anybody can point me in the correct
> direction.
>
> I am familiar with OLEDB, MAPI, COM, C++ and all other window
> architecture.
>
> This application must work for Exchange Server 2003 & 2007.
>
> This application will be used by network administrators.
>
> We have a requirement of no .NET.
>
> Thanks,
> Tom
>
>
>

10 Jun 2009 2:59 PM

Tom

Hi Glen,

Thank you very much for your response. That is definitley what I was looking
for.

Regards,
Tom

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"Glen Scales [MVP]" <gsca***@outlookexchange.com> wrote in message
news:eHlX70V6JHA.1092@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> If you have enabled Message Tracking on a Exchange server then on Exchange
> 2003 you can use WMI to query the Message tracking logs via
> Exchange_MessageTrackingEntry
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa143739(EXCHG.65).aspx or on 2007
> you dont have the Exchange WMI class so you need to using the
> get-messagetrackinglogs Exchange Management Shell Cmdlets
> get-messagetrackinglogs
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa997573.aspx. To make these
> queries the user will need to have been delegate at least view only admin
> rights. The logs files are a simple text format although the format
> differs between 2003 and 2007 but you can still read the raw log files. To
> use the log file affectedly you need to understand the different events
> that are logged eg http://support.microsoft.com/kb/821905.
>
> Cheers
> Glen
>
>
>
> "Tom" <t**@gigasoftdevelopment.com> wrote in message
> news:uIusqLE6JHA.1416@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have been reading a lot of conflicting information regarding Exchange
>> Server programming and I am soliciting anybody who can point me in the
>> correct direction.
>>
>> We want to create an application that can monitor message throughput and
>> exchange server loading for 2003 & 2007. The goal is the use C++ COM as
>> the
>> preferred development platform. We want to capture the following items
>> daily
>> for the preliminary release.
>>
>> 1. Number of messages sent by the exchange server.
>> 2. Number of messages received by the exchange server
>> 3. Total size of received messages.
>> 4. Total size of sent messages.
>>
>> I have read so much information (some conflicting) about how to do this
>> efficiently and I was wondering if anybody can point me in the correct
>> direction.
>>
>> I am familiar with OLEDB, MAPI, COM, C++ and all other window
>> architecture.
>>
>> This application must work for Exchange Server 2003 & 2007.
>>
>> This application will be used by network administrators.
>>
>> We have a requirement of no .NET.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
>>
>>
>>
>
>