performance monitoring

[aetius]

Hi,

I'm new to exchange administration and would like to better understand performance monitoring. I've had a look on google and various options for counters/logs and alerts and a dozen different options for memory and cpu.

I'd like to know what things exchange administrators typically monitor and how.

Any advice for practical day to day monitoring is much appreciated.

tx

Mark

 

[zbnet]

Presumably you don't have MOM or SCOM?

 

[aetius]

I've only just set SMS 2003 and am trying to get to grips with it now.

 

[zbnet]

SMS?

 

[58sniper]

Yikes - that's old. Is SMS even capable of monitoring 2007? I would think you'd have to be at least to something in the System Center family (SCOM, SCE, etc).

Things you need to watch include drive space, event logs, tracking logs, updates & patches, drive activity counters, memory counters, queues..

Pat Richard MVP
Plan for performance, and capacity takes care of itself. Plan for capacity, and suffer poor performance.

http://www.ucblogs.net/blogs/exchange/

 

[Zelandakh]

disk queue length on each partition.

 

[xmsre]

Disk queue length is practically meaningless. Look at average sec/transaction instead.