PATROL for Microsoft Exchange Servers monitors the Information Stores, storage groups, databases, and logs in your Exchange environment.
You can monitor the following storage properties:
You can perform the following administrative tasks:
Furthermore, you can configure a recovery action to automatically defragment the database on heavy fragmentation. PATROL dismounts the database, performs the defragmentation, and mounts the database again.
Because Exchange databases always fluctuate, you have the ability to run database integrity checks when you have problems or concerns. To run a database integrity check, you must use an account with the proper permissions.
When you run an integrity check, PATROL executes the ISINTEG utility in the following mode:
Note
When you perform an integrity check on a database, the database and all other dependent Exchange Server services are temporarily stopped.
instanceNamesOfMailboxStores
application class instance menu as described in Accessing KM Menu Commands.instanceNamesOfPublicFolderStores
application class instance menu as described in Accessing KM Menu Commands.You can run the database defragmentation program for a specific database in an Exchange 2000 or Exchange 2003 environment. To defragment a database, you must use an account with the proper permissions. You must also have enough disk space available to run the defragmentation program. The defragment command performs a standard defragmentation of the selected database. No optional switches are used.
instanceNamesOfMailboxStores
application class instance menu as described in Accessing KM Menu Commands.instanceNamesOfPublicFolderStores
application class instance menu as described in Accessing KM Menu Commands.You can mount or dismount a specific database in an Exchange 2007 environment. Do so to temporarily take the database offline without stopping the Information Store and then bring it back online. Select one of the following tasks:
instanceNamesOfMailboxStores
application class instance menu as described in Accessing KM Menu Commands.instanceNamesOfPublicFolderStores
application class instance menu as described in Accessing KM Menu Commands.instanceNamesOfMailboxStores
application class instance menu as described in Accessing KM Menu Commands.Access the appropriate instanceNamesOfPublicFolderStores
application class instance menu as described in Accessing KM Menu Commands.
Use one of the following tasks to specify the alarm and warning settings for a user mailbox. When the mailbox reaches this size, either an e-mail message will be sent to an administrator, or the mailbox will be unable to send or receive e-mail.
Select one of the following tasks:
instanceNamesOfTopMailboxes
application class instance menu as described in Accessing KM Menu Commands.instanceNamesOfMailboxStores
application class instance menu as described in Accessing KM Menu Commands.instanceNamesOfWatchedUserInstances
application class instance menu as described in Accessing KM Menu Commands.