[hobbit] Monitoring of MS Exchange

[s_aiello at comcast.net]

On Thursday 19 April 2007 09:57, Tod Hansmann wrote:
> There's nothing built in to hobbit to check detailed information on
> Exchange other than services like smtp and whatnot.  Whereas big brother
> would just check if a port was listening, hobbit has the ability to pass
> information across and check responses, so that extends it beyond just
> "basic" availability in my mind, but to each his own.
>
> You could easily write some scripts to check such things, and the BBWin
> client might have some functionality (we don't use it at the moment), but
> that's outside the realm of my experience with hobbit.  Apologies for not
> knowing it as well as I should on that end.
>
> If you find anything that does check more in depth, that would be quite
> interesting.  I'm sure it's been done before.
>
> Tod Hansmann
> Network Engineer
>

The only way I can see this being done is via a vbscript, polling the Windows 
Performance Libraries.  I do not have access to an Exchange server, so I am 
unsure that there are Exchange specific PerfLib objects, but knowing MS there 
are.

I do the same thing for polling IIS for perf stats, so it would be possible I 
think.

~Steve