Create PowerShell Monitoring Component to Monitor Exchange Database ContentIndexBackLog

wallingj

This is two first, first time posting to Thwack and first time trying to create a PowerShell Component Monitor.

We are moving away from SCM to Orionm but SCM allowed us to monitor on Exchange Search Index ContentIndexBackLog.

The powershell command to see that for a server is:

get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus <servername>  | ?{$_.status -eq "Mounted"}| select name,ContentIndexbacklog

Here is the script I tried creating in SolarWinds, but it does not return any output.

$results= get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus -server ${ip} | ?{$_.status -eq "Mounted"}| select name,ContentIndexbacklog
foreach ($result in $results)
{
$stat=$result.ContentIndexBacklog
$Statistic.ContentBackLog = $stat
$Message.ContentBacklog ="$result.name $stat"

write-host $statistics.contentbacklog

write-host $message.contentbacklog
}

exit 0

Do I need to create an Exchange session, and how do you report back on array of data?

wallingj

After playing around awhile was able to get this to work, decided to make a component for each database and not worry about the array

$db=$args.get(0)
$Session = New-PSSession -ConfigurationName Microsoft.Exchange -ConnectionUri http:/${IP}/PowerShell/ -Authentication Kerberos -Credential $Credential
Import-PSSession $Session -allowclobber

try {
$results = get-MailboxDatabaseCopyStatus $db | ? {$_.status -eq "mounted"} | select-object ContentIndexbacklog
}
catch
{
write-host "Statistic: 0"
write-host "Message: No results"
exit 1
}
write-host $results
If (!$results)
{
write-host "Statistic: 0"
write-host "Message: No results"
exit 1
}
else
{
$stat=$results.ContentIndexBacklog
write-host "Statistic: $stat"
write-host "Message: $stat"
exit 0
}