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Exchange 2007 CCR Status Monitor

Hi, I am trying to create a CCR Status Monitor in APM, does anybody already have a template for this or can help me creating one?

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jiri.tomek

Hello Questionario,
I know you can't install RC version on your production environment but I just want to let you know that APM 4 contains new Powershell Monitor that allows you to execute powershell scripts directly from APM. This could solve your issues with Exchange monitoring.

Maybe you could try RC on some VM to check it.

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Questionario

anybody?

chris.lapoint

Have you tried creating a template yourself?

The Microsoft documentation references a Test-Replication Cmdlet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb124521%28EXCHG.80%29.aspx

So, you could either set up a new application template with the appropriate monitors that map to each of these items or you could run the cmdlet using a Windows Script Monitor.

Test-ReplicationHealth Cmdlet

Exchange 2007 SP1 introduces a new cmdlet called Test-ReplicationHealth. This cmdlet is designed for proactive monitoring of continuous replication and the continuous replication pipeline. The Test-ReplicationHealthcmdlet checks all aspects of replication, cluster services, and storage group replication and replay status to provide a complete overview of the replication system. Specifically, when run on a node in the cluster, the Test-ReplicationHealth cmdlet performs the tests described in the following table.

Tests performed by the Test-ReplicationHealth cmdlet

Test	Description
Cluster network status	Verifies that all cluster-managed networks found on the local node are running. This test is run only in a CCR environment.
Quorum group state	Verifies that the cluster group containing the quorum resource is healthy. This test is run only in a CCR environment.
File share quorum state	Verifies that the value of the FileSharePath used by the Majority Node Set quorum with file share witness is reachable. This test is run only in a CCR environment.
Clustered mailbox server group state	Verifies that the clustered mailbox server is healthy by confirming that all resources in the group are online. This test is run only in a CCR environment.
Node state	Verifies that neither of the nodes in the cluster is in a paused state. This test is run only in a CCR environment.
DNS registration status	Verifies that all cluster-managed network interfaces that have Require DNS registration to succeed set have passed DNS registration. This test is run only in a CCR environment.
Replication service status	Verifies that the Microsoft Exchange Replication service on the local computer is healthy.
Storage group copy suspended	Checks whether continuous replication has been suspended for any storage groups enabled for continuous replication.
Storage group copy failed	Checks whether any storage group copies are in a Failed state.
Storage group replication queue length	Checks whether any storage group has a replication copy queue length greater than best practice thresholds. Currently, these thresholds are: Warning Queue length is 3–5 logs. Failure Queue length is 6 or more logs.
Databases dismounted after failover	Checks whether any databases are dismounted or failed after a failover has occurred. This test only checks for databases that have failed as a result of a failover.

RogerWong

Hi, Questionario. You might be the first to share an Exchange 2007 CRR monitoring template with the community.

I google searched for monitoring continuous replication and found what promises to be a helpful article from Microsoft regarding CRR-related monitoring

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb629521(EXCHG.80).aspx

It looks like a decent start for figuring out interesting Performance Counters to monitor.

RogerWong

I see that I cross-posted with Chris. Sorry, Chris!

Questionario

Well, I have googled before but couldnt find anything useful. I have to add that I am not even familiar with Exchange 2007 but I introduced Orion into our company and received a request for this monitor as currently none of our monitoring systems are able to do this.

I will take a look at the links next week and try to make an application template out of it, if I manage to do so I will share it with the community.

EDIT: I took a look at these links and I have seen that commandlet before as well...

The thing is I dont know where to go from there... I didnt even know I could call that cmdlet and evaluate the outcome of it with Orion...

Is there a guide as to how to do something like that or a similar monitor where I could see an example?

jiri.tomek

Hello Questionario,

you can run whatever you need using VBscript and "Windows Script Monitor". Just run commandlet and parse it's results to convert them to message and statistics for Windows Script Monitor.