ContentsMonitoring the NetworkThe most critical component of any application is the network that surrounds it. To ensure that your network is available and running smoothly, we suggest monitoring the following components around your email services:
Monitoring email ServicesIn this section we will review the monitors that are generally recommended to fully monitor your services. General MonitorsThe monitors listed below can be used to verify the health of all three major email services: IMAP, POP and SMTP. Use the following tables to identify the individual components to monitor.
NOTE: Please see How to Monitor Exchange with up.time for more detailed information.
Monitoring IMAP
Monitoring POP
Monitoring SMTP
Other Monitoring Considerations
Monitoring the Host ServerDon't forget the value of monitoring the server that is hosting your email services. Monitoring and alerting on the performance of your servers will be critical to ensure that you maintain server availability and meet capacity demands. Monitoring on key performance indicators such as CPU Usage, Disk I/O, Network I/O and Memory usage is essential to ensure your servers are running properly. Next StepsNow that you are monitoring your email applications, it is time to move on to one of these next steps:
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This can be accomplished using the Email Delivery service monitor. This monitor tests sending of email through on server and receipt of mail on another server. To test flow between two servers,... By: uptime Support | Date Created: 8-7-2010 | Last Modified: 8-10-2011 | Index: 471 |
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At times you may notice an error in the uptime.log or alert profile test function indicating that up.time was unable to send mail to a specific email address. An example of the error message is... By: uptime Support | Date Created: 10-10-2009 | Last Modified: 8-13-2011 | Index: 421 |
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Typically this error indicates that the SMTP server you have configured up.time to relay messages through requires authentication or that the user you are authenticating as doesn't have permissions... By: uptime Support | Date Created: 12-31-1969 | Last Modified: 8-10-2011 | Index: 291 |
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Monitoring the performance of your Exchange infrastructure is critical to ensure that your users are receiving the best experience possible from your mail services. Find out how easy it is to... By: uptime Support | Date Created: 5-17-2007 | Last Modified: 6-29-2011 | Index: 175 |
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Email alerts may not be properly sent for any of the following reasons - The SMTP server settings are incorrect. If you are receiving other email alerts or are able to send an emailed report to... By: uptime Support | Date Created: 12-31-1969 | Last Modified: 9-1-2011 | Index: 268 |
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