Monitoring Exchange 2007

[jwalters]

Thanks.

[Box293]

You can cut and paste each one into the Windows Server Wizard under Performance Counters. You'll have to go back and add them to each device a few times as there are quite a few.

I acheieved the same result by using Core Configuration Manager to duplicate an existing COUNTER service and pasted in your performance counters.

One thing I found is that I needed to put in a double \\ for every \ that exists in the middle of each of your strings.

i.e.:
Your example:
\\MSExchangeIS\RPC Requests

Required when copy and pasting (note the double blackslash):
\\MSExchangeIS\\RPC Requests

It took me a little while to realise my mistake.


Thanks very much for these counters, they are great.

[jwalters]

I may need to try that... I have all the counters in but only a few display in my list. Strange... I was worried it was a limitation but there shouldn't be.

[Box293]

One thing I have found useful if you are not getting the expected results is to do the following:

• Open perfmon on the server you are monitoring
  Add the Counter to perfmon
  Here you can see the values that should be returned to Nagios
  Also you can double check the spelling of the Counter and the correct amount of spaces and things like that

One last check is to do the check from the command line (on the Nagios XI host) and see if the data is coming back.