Exchange Monitoring

[Villain]

I've been looking through the forums for information on how to configure Zabbix to monitor Microsoft Exchange. While I've found a couple of posts that help with some Exchange monitoring, I'm not finding much in regards to ensuring that the services Exchange uses are still up.

What is the best way to determine that the Exchange Services are running? Has anyone done this yet? If so, do you have configuration hints? conf file examples? or anything else that can give me a direction to start in?

Thank you

[erisan500]

If you have the zabbix agent installed on the exchange server you can use the following:

service_state[*] (State of service. Parameter is service name. )
0 - running
1 - paused
2 - start pending
3 - pause pending
4 - continue pending
5 - stop pending
6 - stopped
7 - unknown
255 - SCM communication error

Parameter must be real service name as it seen in service properties under “Name:”, not service display name!

Greetings

[Villain]

Not Supported

I'm pretty sure I did this right. I have the Zabbix Agent running on my Exchange server, but I get a response stating that the key is not supported. I'm going to try and play with it a little, see if I can fix it.

[peter_field]

Other options

See:

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2850

There is an example on checking all services on a Windows box in one hit.

But service_state should work also, make sure you use the short name of the service.
i.e.
service_state[RESvc]
service_state[MSExchangeIS]
etc.

Your trigger should be something like:
{Windows_t:service_state[MSExchangeIS].last(0)}>0

Hope that helps.

[gimpel]

*bump*

Does this need any special configuration on the windows machine running Exchange?

Because for all exchange services it returns 255, the only service this does work with is [ZABBIX Agent].
ZABBIX agent itself is the only service that gets reported by

zabbix_agentd.exe --print

EDIT: solved by

http://www.zabbix.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5762&highlight=service_state

One needs to use the viewing name.

[root@phmon01 ~]# zabbix_get -smucvex1 -k"service_state[Microsoft Exchange-Informationsspeicher]"
0

[tronite]

I've been looking through the forums for information on how to configure Zabbix to monitor Microsoft Exchange. While I've found a couple of posts that help with some Exchange monitoring, I'm not finding much in regards to ensuring that the services Exchange uses are still up.

What is the best way to determine that the Exchange Services are running? Has anyone done this yet? If so, do you have configuration hints? conf file examples? or anything else that can give me a direction to start in?

Thank you

As long as you know the ports on which the services you want to monitor run, you should have no problem.