[xymon] Monitoring Exchange 2010 - imaps/pop3s alarms

[Shawn Heisey]

On 11/18/2010 2:02 PM, Shawn Heisey wrote:
> I have recently migrated from Exchange 2003 to Exchange 2010.  Several 
> times a day, I get alarms for  imaps and pop3s, which are resolved 
> less than a minute later.
>
> The graph (http://www.elyograg.org/pop3s.png) shows hourly spikes in 
> reponse time.  The alarms are not every hour, but when they do happen, 
> they correspond to the spikes.  The email from xymon looks like this.  
> Note the "seconds" value, which is extremely low.  Anytime there's an 
> alarm, the value is low like this.
>
> ----
> Service pop3s on server.example.com is not OK : Service unavailable 
> (connect timeout)
>
>
> Seconds: 0.003435
> ----
>
> There have been no complaints from people who use the service, and 
> believe me, I'd hear about it if there was a problem.
>
> The non-SSL versions are not alarming.  I just noticed that the graph 
> for pop3 has two entries - pop3 and pop3s.  From what I can tell, it 
> checks TLS on the standard test.  The pop3s graph on the pop3 entry 
> looks identical to the pop3s graph I've included here, except it's red 
> instead of blue.
>
> I suspect that it's related to the throttling policies in Exchange 
> 2010, but I don't know what to change.  I don't want to open the 
> default throttling policy way up, but I did change the anonymous 
> connection limit from 1 to 5.  Has anyone else had this problem and 
> found a way to solve it?

I forgot to mention versions.  Xymon is the debian package in 
lenny-backports, x86_64 version  4.3.0~beta2.dfsg-5~bpo50+1.  The 
Exchange server is running on Windows Server 2008 R2 with BBWin 0.12.