Monitoring IMS queue on Exchange 5.5

[Furton]

Our IMS queue on exchange 5.5 will sometimes fill up with about 30 e-mails waiting to be delivered, this is caused by our router going a bit iffy after a few days of use (waiting on fix from supplier) but I need something to warn us when this queue starts to fill up since the server is on a KVM and we can't keep the switch on the server all the time (hence, can't use the IMS graph)

Is there a feature in Exchange 5.5 or a plug in that will send an internal mail (not affected by router problem) to the network admin when a queue reaches a particular size of if a mail has been sat there for over a few hours?

Any adivce appriciated.

 

[Vos]

Sure, just use Performance Monitor from another workstation to monitor the appropriate parameters on your Exchange server.

Depending on which queue (in/outbound) you want to measure, you'll pick something like MSEXCHANGEIMC:Queued Outbound or Queued Inbound.

You could setup an alert within perfmon to let you know when this happens...

Hope this helps...

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Vos

 

[Furton]

Could you please point me towards an article on how to set this up please? I'm pretty new to WinNT and not too sure where to begin.
Cheers

 

[Vos]

This article will take you through it, although any book on NT, as that sounds like what you're running, will tell you how to setup performance monitoring.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;150934&Product=nts40

Hope this helps...

There are 10 types of people in the world,
those who know binary, and those who don't!

Vos

 

[Furton]

Is there no way of monitering the IMS queue from a Win XP or Win 98 system that is connected to the network. That article isn't exactly what I needed, altough it has showed me some other stuff which was helpfull.

 

[zbnet]

You could always share out the \imcdata\in and \out folders on your IMS server - these are the holding areas that the IMS puts the messages in that are in the queue (one file per message) - then you can see how many messages there are in the queue from any PC on the network. Share them as Read Only, though!