The Sentry-go Quick Exchange Monitor allows you to easily monitor Exchange servers as well as the supporting e-mail environment. With it you can either take automatic action, or send an alert should a problem be detected - before end-users are affected. Using it's in-built web-based reporting, you also have immediate access to monitored information direct from your web browser.

• Monitor key services
   
  Monitoring Exchange related services is easy & straight forward. In addition, custom services can also be added, monitored & automatically restarted. Exchange 5.5 monitoring, Exchange 2000 monitoring & Exchange 2003 monitoring can all be performed.

• Check e-mails can be sent & received
   
  This check helps ensure that e-mails can be sent using SMTP & received using POP3 or IMAP.

• Monitor Exchange Server performance
   
  Out of the box you can monitor the threshold of important Windows & Exchange performance counters such as CPU usage, queue lengths etc. Custom counters can also be added & monitored. Microsoft Exchange 5.5, Exchange 2009 & Exchange 2003 are all supported.

• Monitor errors written to the Windows Event Log
   
  Sentry-go allows you to monitor messages written to the Windows Event Logs based on error type, event ID, source or keywords & phrases within the text.
   
  Monitor messages written to custom log files In addition to Event Logs, you can also monitor the entries written to text-based log files such as the Exchange Message Tracking files, based on keywords or phrases within the text.

• Ensure sufficient disk space is available
   
  To run efficiently, your Windows & Exchange server needs adequate free disk space. Sentry-go can check this for you, clearing down temporary files automatically if free space becomes limited.

Quick Monitors allow you to respond in a number of ways, in the event a fault is detected ...

• Respond automatically by running a command, application, batch file or script
• Automatically restart a failed Windows Service or reboot the server
• Alert you via network messaging, standard or custom e-mails
• Different alerting methods based on day of week and time of day
• Alert you via the Quick Monitor Console
• Alert you via your SMS pager gateway provider Interface with external systems via SMTP, HTTP, or scripting
• Log details to a SysLog Server, database or text file 

The built-in web server provides access to the following information direct from your desktop browser ...

• Standard reports - for recent alerts, current status & performance history
• Message Tracking Summary - allows you to analyse, view & format the contents of Exchange message tracking files

Configuring Exchange Service Monitoring

Monitoring that e-mails can be sent & received successfully