Good Afternoon We monitor Exchange 5.5 and 2000 servers for several clients using HP ITO agents installed locally on the server. We are using HP ITO v6 w/ an HP/UX back end. It has the ability monitor services, application logs, perfmon counters, etc - its quite capable, but alot to deploy.
We are running the exchange spi's that come with ITO. However this doesn't quite cover enough. We had a 5.5 server die over the weekend - the root cause was disk corruption on a RAID set (still not sure exactly how it happened, no disk actually failed, just started eating data) Anyway the first signs of failure were sunday morning in the wee hours during a daily backup it started spitting up ESE97 errors stating database corruption, restore from a known good backup, etc. Our ITO monitor did not pick up the problem until several hours later when the IS service finally died. We lost the whole server after a few hours of attempting to repair, restore (we'll talk about why not to use dell server hardware in a different thread). Anyway, what I'm looking for here is a list of events that could be logged into the Application log that we should set up monitors for in ITO. So far the only thing I can come up with is anything from Source: ESE97 that is type Error. Will this only generate real problem alerts or will it generate noise? Also is there any other specific events I should be looking for? Also, Is there any suggestions for doing the same for Exchange 2000? 2 of our monitored customers are running 2000, 3 are running 5.5. Any help from anyone who's done Exchange system monitoring from HP ITO (either Windows or Unix back ends) would be greatly appreciated. The smart plugins for ITO6 and OVOW 7 are real nice, but don't have alot useful in the way of event log monitors Thanks in advance. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Greg Sachs [EMAIL PROTECTED] _________________________________________________________________ List posting FAQ: http://www.swinc.com/resource/exch_faq.htm Web Interface: http://intm-dl.sparklist.com/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=exchange&text_mode=&lang=english To unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Exchange List admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
