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Perfmon - Remote Queue Length

Hello,

I am currently evaluating NPM and APM and am wondering if any of you know how to monitor remote queue length's of a server (not using exchange). We deliver million's of emails a day through our clients and this is an important aspect that we need to monitor to make sure that they're emails are getting delivered in a timely fashion.

In APM, I saw a Remote Queue Length template (Win32_PerfFormattedData_PerfNet_ServerWorkQueues), but this monitors the work queue of the CPU.

We currently use an old version of SiteScope (before it was bought out by HP) and this has the functionality to use Perfmon to monitor the remote queue length. (Object: SMTP Server, Counter: Remote Queue Length, Instance: _Total).

I went through the WMI Tester and cannot seem to find any counter that does this (on the server processing the emails). Is there a WMI counter for this? If not, is there a way to do this with Perfmon through APM (my inclination is no)?

Thanks,

Byron

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FormerMember

Okay, think I figured this one out. I edited the template to use Win32_PerfRawData_SMTPSVC_SMTPServer so the WQL Query is:

SELECT RemoteQueueLength FROM Win32_PerfRawData_SMTPSVC_SMTPServer WHERE Name='0'

This is currently returning an error. I guess I'm unsure of what I should place for "WHERE Name='0'". I believe I need to switch this, but not sure what parameters need to be passed in to monitor the queue length.

Thanks,

Byron

FormerMember

Well, maybe I shouldn't be so hasty in my search for answers. I figured it out:

SELECT RemoteQueueLength from Win32_PerfRawData_SMTPSVC_SMTPServer where name = "_Total"