Description
This Configuration
Utility simplifies the customization of certain Exchange 2000 Management Pack features
for your specific Exchange deployment.
From a centralized
console, the Configuration Utility sets registry keys that are needed by the
Exchange 2000 Management Pack. These registry keys are created on every
Exchange 2000 server that you want monitored by MOM. The utility does not
change any of the Microsoft
Operations Manager (MOM) settings. The utility configures the
following two areas of functionality in the Exchange 2000 Management Pack:
·
Monitored
Services: Selecting the "services to monitor" on each
Exchange server sets the registry key used by the Service Verification.
Check services script rule in the processing rule group Microsoft Exchange
2000 Server\Server Availability Monitoring\Verify Exchange Services. This
rule calls the "Exchange 2000 - Check service(s) state" script to
verify the state of the services that you selected.
The registry key which will be set to the list of monitored servers is HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange
MOM\Monitored Services.
·
Mail
Flow: Configuring
the "mail flow" sets the registry keys used by the mail flow
verification rules Send mail flow messages and Receive mail flow messages
in the processing rule group Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server\Server Availability
Monitoring\Verify Mail Flow. These keys specify where a given server is
to send mail and from which server mail is expected.
The registry keys that this will set are HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange
MOM\Mail Flow\<Servername>\SendTo
and _LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Exchange MOM\Mail Flow\<Servername>\ExpectedFrom, where <Servername> is the name of the
Exchange server, which is a virtual server in the case of a clustered server
configuration.
More
information on these areas of functionality, please consult the Knowledge Base
for these rule groups in the Exchange 2000 Management Pack.
Installation
To
install the configuration utility, log on to a computer running Windows 2000 or
Windows XP with an account that is a local administrator. Run the ex2kmpSnapin.msi
setup program and follow through the installation wizard. Do not do the installation over a Terminal
Server connection.
How it
works
The Configuration
Utility enumerates all Exchange 2000 servers from the Active Directory and uses
Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to obtain information from and set
information in the registry of each Exchange Server. To perform this task, you
must run the Configuration Utility using a domain account that has local
administrator rights on all Exchange servers (such as the Domain
Administrator). This is required so that the utility can set registry values on
Exchange servers. It also requires the Microsoft
Cluster
Automation Server to work with clustered Exchange 2000 servers. Note
that no check is done as to whether these servers are monitored by MOM. Please
ensure that agents are installed and properly configured on all Exchange
servers that you want to monitor.
Configuration report
Click this
link to go to a Web page that displays the current Exchange 2000 Management
Pack settings that can be configured in this utility. Depending on the
number of Exchange 2000 servers and the network speed, the report may take a
considerable time to generate. Check the status bar to see the which server is currently being processed and the task
progress.
Usage information
·
Using
"bulk" edit: When you select multiple servers, each selected property
is applied uniformly to all selected servers. Only use the multiple selection feature if you want all machines to be configured uniformly.
Note: Only non-blank settings are applied to the selected
servers. This way, if you edit only the "Monitored Services"
property when you apply the changes, the mail flow properties are not changed
in the selected servers.
·
Using
"runas": If you run the Configuration Utility under
a runas session, you will need to set the
USERDOMAIN environment variable to the domain of the servers that you want to
configure. For more information about the runas
application, see the Windows online help.
·
Listing virtual servers: The Configuration
Utility lists the virtual Exchange 2000 servers instead of the physical nodes
of a cluster. This is because some properties are linked to the Exchange 2000
virtual server instead of the physical node currently owning this server. If
appropriate, the Configuration Utility obtains and sets the properties from the
corresponding physical nodes.
More information