Hello guys,

I'm monitoring Exchange 2013 with SCOM 2012 SP1. I want to know how to create SCOM alerts for mailbox queues monitoring or edge queues but I found no interesting documentation about this type of monitoring. SCOM is monitoring the ManagedAvailability mainly but my clients are interested to get SCOM alerts when the mailbox queues are full or slow to be treated.

Can you please give some suggestions or indicate interesting documentation?

Thanks in advance. 

Hi,

Besides monitoring the Managed Availability - you can always create and fine-tune your custom alerts based on Performance Counters from a target Exchange Server.

Exchange-specific Performance Counters cover dramatic amount of various indexes including queues and execution time. This should be useful in your case: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dn904093%28v=exchg.150%29.aspx

Thank you very much for your reply.

If we exclude SCOM, my exchange colleagues are interested to know if some alert configurations were already set when they installed Exchange 2013 on the servers. Example. To generate an alert when the mailbox queues are full.

Thank you very much.

Hi ,

The following article may give you some hints :

Exchange 2013 Monitoring Mailbox Databases and Queues

Discoveries

This MP will discovery individual Mailbox databases (stand alone  or DAG)  and Transport Queues on Exchange servers.  Discovery is a PowerShell script runs against Exchange server object every 12 hours.

After importing the MP  discovered mailbox databases can be accessed under Mailbox Database Health  view under default Exchange MP folder.

Hope it helps,

Best regards,

Actually there is a system of Alerts and Notification built-in to the Exchange Admin Center, that you can overview or manage with

Get-Notification

and for example

Get-Help Set-Notification

Also, as always - there is a descent amount of system counters installed with Exchange Server, but they don't alert you before you employ Performance Counters and Alerts or SCOM.

Meanwhile, there is no such thing as a mailbox queue. There exists a mailbox quota limit, or a transport queues, which cannot be full unless a disk runs out of empty space.

Actually there is a system of Alerts and Notification built-in to the Exchange Admin Center, that you can overview or manage with

Get-Notification

and for example

Get-Help Set-Notification

Also, as always - there is a descent amount of system counters installed with Exchange Server, but they don't alert you before you employ Performance Counters and Alerts or SCOM.

Meanwhile, there is no such thing as a mailbox queue. There exists a mailbox quota limit, or a transport queue, which cannot be full unless a disk runs out of empty sp

Actually there is a system of Alerts and Notification built-in to the Exchange Admin Center, that you can overview or manage with

Get-Notification

and for example

Get-Help Set-Notification

Also, as always - there is a descent amount of system counters installed with Exchange Server, but they don't alert you before you employ Performance Counters and Alerts or SCOM.

Meanwhile, there is no such thing as a mailbox queue. There exists a mailbox quota limit, or a transport queue, which cannot be full unless a disk runs out of empty sp

Hello guys, we're looking to reproduce some monitors that my team used in the past in the previous Exchange 2007 and 2010.

Do you have some tips to create the following SCOM monitors with Exchange 2013?

MSExchangeTransport Queues

Active Mailbox Delivery Queue Length

External Retry Remote Delivery Queue Length

Poison Queue Length

Thank you very much.

Hello guys, we're looking to reproduce some monitors that my team used in the past in the previous Exchange 2007 and 2010.

Do you have some tips to create the following SCOM monitors with Exchange 2013?

MSExchangeTransport Queues

Active Mailbox Delivery Queue Length

External Retry Remote Delivery Queue Length

Poison Queue Length

Thank you very much.