Vital Signs for Microsoft Exchange
Real-time Exchange Server Performance Troubleshooting
Messaging is mission critical. Your company depends on constant and reliable access to its Microsoft Exchange environment. Even the smallest performance degradation can bring your organization's productivity to a halt. Manually diagnosing, troubleshooting and resolving Exchange Server performance problems is time consuming and difficult. Exchange roles and its dependencies are complex. Without a real-time view into Exchange health, message transaction logs, and each role, IT Pros are left frustrated when trying to resolve Exchange problems.
Vital Signs for Exchange Server is the answer. With its real-time performance view and informative graphical interface crafted by Exchange experts, IT Pros are able to immediately identify performance problems, visually correlate and resolve problems without ever logging onto the Exchange Server.
Proactive Exchange Server Management
Vital Signs provides early-warning of potential service disruptions before end-users notice and complain. By coupling historic and real-time Exchange Server data, IT pros are able to see impending performance problems up to an hour before end-users are affected.
Real-time Exchange Server Performance Data
Vital Signs instantly displays numerous real-time performance graphs that allow IT pros to determine what Exchange Server or OS resource is over utilized. Drilling in further to a OS or Exchange component, IT pros may remotely run diagnostic tests to see what process or system call is causing the performance degradation.
Intelligent Visibility in One Place
Vital Signs’ real-time performance dashboards present all of the performance graphs necessary to make intelligent troubleshooting and capacity planning decisions. Up to twenty key Exchange Server performance indicators are graphed and updated every second.
Self-Learning Exchange Server Performance Thresholds
Vital Signs displays what is considered normal Exchange performance given the time-of-day, day-of-week, and day-of-month. Vital Signs automatically calibrates thresholds based on past performance thereby eliminating any human guesswork. Threshold alerts visually indicate impending performance problems up to one hour before an outage.
Embedded SQL Server Expertise
Industry-renowned Exchange Server experts helped build this Vital Signs module. Their years of experience solving the toughest Exchange problems guarantees that you have the right-data at the right-time to solve difficult Exchange performance problems.
Uses Existing Operations Manager Infrastructure
Unlike other performance management tools, Vital Signs uses your existing Operations Manager 2007 infrastructure. This allows you to view real-time performance information without deploying new hardware or ever leaving Operation Manager Console. Vital Signs also provides a full-featured web-based console.
Vital Signs For Exchange Videos
Here are several videos that detail what can be down with Vital Signs for Microsoft Exchange
Poor Outlook Performance
This scenario shows where spikes in user activity result in poor response times for users during that period. It also talks about the challenges for planning for these spikes in user activity without over allocating resources that then go unused during periods of low activity.
Troubleshooting DC Problems
This scenario shows how Vital Signs can track performance problems with Exchange down to performance problems with domain controllers.
Messaging Tacking
This scenario shows a specific case where a CxO needs to confirm the delivery of a very important message.
Troubleshooting Quotas
This scenario shows a specific case where Exchange Server is experiencing delivery failures that are associated with a mailbox that has been disabled as a result of exceeding the storage limit quota.
Vital Signs for Exchange - Hyper-V Storage Problem
This scenario shows how Vital Signs can be used to troubleshoot storage related performance problems both at the application level, and hypervisor level. It also shows how misconfiguration of Exchange and Hyper-V storage can quickly be identified by the graphical storage page in Vital Signs.
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Key Performance Indicators
A unified view of all key performance indicators of your Exchange Server. The built-in calibration system ensures that thresholds relevant for your environment are used. Visual event correlation allows you to pinpoint the root cause of a problem at a glance.
Mailbox Databases
A list of all mailbox databases showing size, active logons, average message delivery times, and the number of queued messages. The details view shows key performance indicators, the list of mailboxes, and key properties for each mailbox database.
Domain Controllers
A list of domain controllers used by Exchange Server showing LDAP search performance for each domain controller. The details view shows key performance indicators for each domain controller.
Queues
A list of all queues showing the current state, size, number of messages, and oldest message for each queue. The details view shows the list of messages that are currently sitting in the queue.
Message Tracking
A list of errors found in the Exchange message tracking log. A powerful search facility is provided for searching for specific errors or messages in the log.
Storage
A graphical and detailed view of your Exchange Server's storage system including all the database and log files.
Services
A list of all the core Exchange services and their state.
Properties
A complete list of all relevant properties of your Exchange Server helps you quickly understand the configuration of your Exchange Server.