Derek Roberts asked: >> Has anyone been able to successfully monitor an Exchange 5.5 servers MTA queue >> using SNMP? ALL I want is an alert generated when the queue's gets above >> say 20 messages (for example).
There is a way to configure the Exchange MTA to write messages into the NT Event Log when the queue grows to a certain size. The procedure to configure these messages is documented by Microsoft here: XCON: MTA Logs Warning Events When Queues Reach Specified Sizes http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q163085 A closely related set of messages are also documented here: XFOR: How the Internet Mail Service Handles Low Disk Space http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q189587 You can then use EVNTWIN.EXE (available on Windows 2000 or later) to convert this log message into an SNMP trap, which WhatsUp Gold can listen for. If you go that route, you might want to check out this IPSWITCH KB article on hand-editing your traps.txt to make the resulting traps look nicer: WhatsUp Gold - Hand-editing of MIB.TXT and TRAPS.TXT http://support.ipswitch.com/kb/WG-20020305-DM01.htm Hope that helps! --Tim Farley IPSWITCH Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/whatsup_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/
