Exchange Status Monitoring

Host Template: Application - Microsoft Exchange - Status

Monitor the status of your Microsoft Exchange server with checks to monitor the status of required services and components.

This Host Template includes the following Service Checks:

Service Check Name	Description	Default Thresholds (Warning, Critical)	UOM
Exchange - Status - Service States	Check required Microsoft Exchange services are running. If not run with verbose mode, results will be truncated and summarised.	N/A	N/A
Exchange - Status - Component States	Check the status of Microsoft Exchange components. If not run with verbose mode, results will be truncated and summarised.	N/A	N/A

Usage Instructions

Ensure you have set the Primary Hostname/IP field of your Opsview Host to the hostname or IP address of your exchange server.

Step 1: Add this Host Template

Add the Application - Microsoft Exchange - Status Host Template to your Opsview Monitor host. If the resource you're monitoring has no hostname or public IP, then open the Advanced settings pane and change Host Check Command to Always assumed to be UP.

For more information, refer to Opsview Knowledge Center - Adding Host Templates to Hosts.

Step 2: Add and configure variables required for this Host Template

The Service Checks in this Host Template use the following variables, and they will be added to your Opsview Monitor instance when you import the Opspack:

KERBEROS_REALM

Only required if authenticating using Kerberos.

Parameter	Position in Variable	Name	Description
Opsview UI Only	Value	Kerberos Realm	Kerberos realm. This value is not used by the plugin, it is used to automatically configure your 'krb5.conf' configuration file

WINRM_TRANSPORT

Parameter	Position in Variable	Name	Description
-Transport	Value	Authentication Type	Authentication type to use
-Username	Arg1	Username	Username for remote windows host
-Password	Arg2	Password	Password for remote windows host
-Scheme	Arg3	Scheme	Scheme for connecting to remote windows host
Opsview UI Only	Arg4	Extra Args	Extra args for check_by_winrm. The value is appended to the check_by_winrm call.

MS_EXCHANGE_EXPECTED_INACTIVE

Parameter	Position in Variable	Name	Description
-InactiveComponents	Arg1	MS Exchange Inactive Components	Comma separated list of components which are expected to be inactive
-InactiveServices	Arg2	MS Exchange Inactive Services	Comma separated list of services which are not expected to be running

For more information, refer to Opsview Knowledge Center - Adding Variables to Hosts.

For mode-specific help, run the plugin with the -h -m <mode> flags. This will list the required and optional Variable Arguments for that mode. The appropriate mode for each Service Check is listed here: