The problem with most applications which report on message traffic (not MessageStats specifically necessarily) is that they tend to do a relatively poor job of rolling up the data, so that in enterprise environments keeping long term historical data (possibly at a less granular level) for trending purposes involves additional scripting on your part. A question for the vendor would be how much space would 12 months worth of historical data occupy for your organization based on your estimated traffic.
Course, I work for a vendor which makes a product which does what you're looking for along with a few other things, so please take my points with the grain of salt they deserve. -- Chris Scharff, MVP-Exchange MessageOne Exchange Monitoring & Reporting: http://www.messageone.com/MV.asp Free Custom OWA Screens: http://www.messageone.com/m1owa/index.asp On 3/13/03 18:36, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone have any opinions on Quest's MessageStats? I just got the dog and > pony yesterday and would be interested in what people thought about it that > use or have evaluated it. Why did you go with it? Why didn't you. > > Ken Powell > Systems Administrator > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Voice: (360) 397-6121 x4658 > Fax: (360) 759-6001 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Randy Roffey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2003 10:50 AM > To: Exchange 5.5 List > Subject: Re: Emails per day > > > Hypersoft - OmniAnalyser > Quest - MessageStats > NetIQ - AppAnalyzer > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Busby, Jacob" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Exchange Discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 8:43 AM > Subject: Emails per day > > > This could well be a dumb question but, we've been asked to find out how > many e-mails are sent in a single day. Now we could check at the > firewall/mail gateway but that'd only get outbound/inbound mail. Perfmon > might give a clue (if we could stand that performance hit) and we can > monitor disk growth, but does anybody know a simple way to assess how many > emails per day are sent both internally and externally. Thanks. > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > _________________________________________________________________ > List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm > Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp > To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Archives: http://www.swynk.com/sitesearch/search.asp To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
