Exchange Server Roles view (reference information)
The Exchange Server Roles view can be accessed by selecting an individual server from under the Servers object container in the Exchange Infrastructure view on the Exchange Explorer dashboard. Select the Roles navigation tab to display the Exchange Server Roles view for the selected server. The contents of this view depends on the Exchange role selected at the top of the view.
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This view appears when Client Access is selected on the Exchange Server Roles view and displays the following metrics for the selected Exchange server. The counters and metrics indicators in this view change colors based on overall consumption and deviation from normal levels. | |||||
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OWA Average Search Time. This button displays the calculated OWA average search time over the specified time interval. | |||||
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OWA Average Response Time. This button displays the calculated OWA average response time over the specified time interval. | |||||
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OWA Average Search & Response Times. This graph charts the following metrics over the specified time interval:
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Peak Number of OWA Users. This metrics indicator shows the largest number of users that were simultaneously connected to Outlook Web Access since the process was last restarted. | |||||
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Number of OWA Users. This graph charts the following metrics over the specified time interval:
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ASP.NET Requests. This graph charts the following metrics over the specified time interval:
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OWA Logons/sec. This graph charts the number of Outlook Web Access user sessions that are created each second over the specified time interval. | |||||
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OWA Requests/sec. This graph charts the following metrics over the specified time interval:
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Web Services Request/sec. This graph charts the number of web service requests processed per second. It provides a comparison against the computed average over the specified time interval. | |||||
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Availability Requests/sec. This graph charts the number of availability requests serviced per second. It provides a comparison against the computed average over the specified time interval. | |||||
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This view appears when Client Access is selected on the Exchange Server Roles view and displays a list of the metrics related to IIS health that are being collected on the selected Exchange server. | |||||||||
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Metrics Trend. This list displays the metrics being collected. It also displays the current state, a trend line graph and the current value for each metric. The metrics being collected include:
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This view appears when Client Access is selected on the Exchange Server Roles view and displays a list of the metrics related to the ActiveSync service on the selected Exchange server. | |||||||
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Top Exchange ActiveSync Users. This list displays the following details for each user:
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This view appears when Edge Transport is selected on the Exchange Server Roles view and displays the following transport queue metrics for the selected server. | |
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Submission Queue Length. This graph charts the number of messages in the submission queue waiting to be processed for delivery. The Submission queue is used by the categorizer to gather all messages that have to be resolved, routed, and processed by transport agents. | |
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Unreachable Queue Length. This graph charts the number of messages in the unreachable queue. The Unreachable queue contains messages that cannot be routed to their destinations. | |
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Poison Queue Length. This graph charts the number of messages in the poison queue. The poison message queue is a special queue, used to isolate messages that are determined to be harmful to the Exchange system after a transport server or service failure. | |
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Active Mailbox Delivery Queue Length. This graph charts the number of messages in the active Mailbox delivery queues. | |
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Active Non-SMTP Delivery Queue Length. This graph charts the number of items in the active Non-SMTP queues. Non-SMTP Delivery Queue is associated with the queue for Foreign Connectors. A Foreign Connector is added by using the new-ForeignConnector cmdlet or by a third-party Exchange application. | |
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Retry Mailbox Delivery Queue Length. This counters displays the number of messages currently in the retry mailbox delivery queue. Messages in this queue are in a retry state because an issue prevented their delivery. | |
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This view appears when Edge Transport is selected on the Exchange Server Roles view and displays the following metrics about the transport mail database for the selected server. | |
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Log Threads Waiting. This graph charts the number of threads waiting for their data to be written to the log in order to complete the database update. | |
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Log Generation Checkpoint Depth. This graph charts the number of transaction log files that have not yet been saved to the database. This number represents the number of transaction log files that must be replayed to the database if the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service process (Store.exe) stops and needs to be restarted. | |
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Log Record Stalls/sec. This graph charts the number of log records that cannot be added to the log buffers each second because the log buffers are full. | |
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I/O Log Reads/sec. This counter displays the rate at which bytes are read from the log. | |
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I/O Log Writes/sec. This counter displays the rate at which bytes are written to the log. | |
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Version Buckets Allocated. This counter displays the number of buckets of version store memory that are currently being used. A version bucket is a 16 kilobyte (KB) chunk of the version store. The version store is an allocation of memory where database transactions are held, until they can be written to disk. | |
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I/O Database Reads/sec. This counter displays the rate at which bytes are read from the database. | |
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I/O Database Writes/sec. This counter displays the rate at which bytes are written to the database. | |
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Database Cache Size MB. This counter displays the amount of system memory used by the database cache manager to hold commonly used information from the database files to prevent file operations. | |
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This view appears when Edge Transport is selected on the Exchange Server Roles view and displays the following metrics about the SMTP server and about the transport load. | |
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SMTP Receive: Messages Received/sec. This graph charts the number of messages received by the SMTP server each second. | |
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SMTP Receive: Average bytes/message. This graph charts the average number of message bytes per inbound message received. | |
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SMTP Send: Messages Sent/sec. This graph charts the number of messages sent by the SMTP send connector each second. It provides a comparison against the computed average for the specified time interval. | |
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This view appears when Edge Transport is selected on the Exchange Server Roles view and displays the following metrics for the selected Exchange server. | |
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Average Agent Processing Time. This graph charts the average agent processing time per event. | |
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Sender ID Agent DNS Queries/sec. This graph charts the number of DNS queries performed by the Sender ID agent per second. | |
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Average Agent Processing Time/sec. For each extensibility agent, this counter displays the average agent processing time per second. | |
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Messages Evaluated/sec. This counter displays the number of messages the rule has evaluated per second. | |
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Messages Processed/sec. This counter displays the number of messages the rule has processed per second. | |
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This view appears when Hub Transport is selected on the Exchange Server Roles view and displays the following transport queue metrics for the selected server. | |
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Submission Queue Length. This graph charts the number of messages waiting to be processed for delivery. The Submission queue is used by the categorizer to gather all messages that have to be resolved, routed, and processed by transport agents. | |
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Unreachable Queue Length. This graph charts the number of messages in the unreachable queue. These messages are not automatically resubmitted or removed. The Unreachable queue contains messages that cannot be routed to their destinations. | |
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Poison Queue Length. This graph charts the number of messages in the poison queue. These messages are not automatically resubmitted or removed. The poison message queue is a special queue, used to isolate messages that are determined to be harmful to the Exchange system after a transport server or service failure. | |
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Active Mailbox Delivery Queue Length. This graph charts the number of messages waiting to be retried for delivery to a Mailbox server. Active Mailbox Delivery Queue Length is the number of items in the active mailbox queues. | |
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Active Non-SMTP Delivery Queue Length. This graph shows the number of messages in the active Non-SMTP queues. Active Non-SMTP Delivery Queue Length is the number of items in the active Non-SMTP queues. Non-SMTP Delivery Queue is associated with the queue for Foreign Connectors. A Foreign Connector is added by using the new-ForeignConnector cmdlet or by a third-party Exchange application. | |
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Retry Mailbox Delivery Queue Length. This graph shows the number of messages in the retry mailbox delivery queues. The Retry Mailbox Delivery Queue Length performance counter measures the number of messages currently in the retry mailbox delivery queue. Messages in this queue are in a retry state because an issue prevented their delivery. | |
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This view appears when Hub Transport is selected on the Exchange Server Roles view and displays the following metrics about the transport databases for the selected server. | |
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Log Threads Waiting. This graph charts the number of threads waiting for their data to be written to the log in order to complete the database update. | |
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Log Generation Checkpoint Depth. This graph charts the number of transaction log files that have not yet been saved to the database. This number represents the number of transaction log files that must be replayed to the database if the Microsoft Exchange Information Store service process (Store.exe) stops and needs to be restarted. | |
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Log Record Stalls /sec. This graph charts the number of log records that cannot be added to the log buffers each second because the log buffers are full. | |
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I/O Log Reads/sec. This counter shows the rate at which bytes are read from the log. | |
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I/O Log Writes/sec. This counter shows the rate at which bytes are written to the log. | |
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Version Buckets Allocated. This counter show the total number of buckets of version store memory that are currently being used. A version bucket is a 16 kilobyte (KB) chunk of the version store. The version store is an allocation of memory where database transactions are held until they can be written to disk. | |
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I/O Database Reads/sec. This counter shows the rate at which bytes are read from the database. | |
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I/O Database Writes/sec. This counter shows the rate at which bytes are written to the database. | |
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Total Database Cache Size in MB. This counter shows the amount of system memory used by the database cache manager to hold commonly used information from the database files to prevent file operations. | |
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This view appears when Hub Transport is selected on the Exchange Server Roles view and displays the following metrics about the SMTP server. | |
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SMTP Receive: Messages Received/sec. This graph charts the number of messages received by the SMTP server each second. | |
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SMTP Receive: Average bytes/message. This graph charts the average number of bytes for each inbound message received. | |
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SMTP Send: Messages Sent/sec. This graph charts the number of messages sent by the SMTP send connector each second. | |
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This view appears when Mailbox is selected on the Exchange Server Roles view and displays the following metrics regarding the Information Store on the selected Exchange server. | |||
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RPC Operations/sec. This graph charts the rate at which RPC operations are occurring over the specified time interval. It provides a comparison against the computed average for the selected time interval. | |||
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RPC Requests. This graph charts the number of client requests that are currently being processed by the information store over the specified time interval. It provides a comparison against the fatal, critical and warning threshold levels | |||
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RPC Averaged Latency. This graph charts the server’s RPC latency averaged for the past 1,024 packets for a particular client protocol. It provides a comparison against the computed average for the selected time interval. | |||
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RPC Number of Slow Packets. Shows the number of RPC packets in the past 1,024 packets that have latencies longer than two seconds. | |||
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RPC Failed Server Too Busy/sec. Shows the client-reported number of failed RPCs due to the Server Too Busy RPC error. | |||
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RPC Client Backoff/sec. Shows the rate at which the server notifies the client to back off. | |||
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Active Connection Count. Shows the number of client processes connected to the information store. | |||
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Connection Count. Shows the number of connections that have shown some activity in the last 10 minutes. | |||
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Top 10 Mailbox Consumers. This list displays the following details for each user: | |||
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Store Transport.This list displays the following details for each Exchange Mail Submission instance: | |||
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This view appears when Mailbox is selected on the Exchange Server Roles view and displays the following metrics regarding the databases on the selected Exchange server. | |||||||||
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Database Overview. Displays the following metrics: | |||||||||
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Exchange 2007 Storage Groups and Databases table. This list displays the storage groups and mailbox databases for the selected Exchange 2007 server. The following details are displayed for each entry:
Selecting a storage group or database from this list populates the metrics in the lower pane (Exchange 2007 Storage Group or Exchange 2007 Mailbox Database). | |||||||||
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Exchange 2007 Storage Group. Displays the following metrics for the selected storage group: | |||||||||
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Exchange 2007 Mailbox Database. Displays the following metrics for the selected mailbox database: | |||||||||
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Exchange 2010, 2013, 2016 Databases table. This list displays the databases for the selected Exchange 2010 or 2013 server. The following details are displayed for each entry:
Selecting a database from this list populates the metrics in the lower pane (Exchange 2010, 2013, 2016 Mailbox Database). | |||||||||
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Exchange 2010, 2013, 2016 Mailbox Database. Displays the following metrics for the selected mailbox database: | |||||||||
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This view appears when Mailbox is selected on the Exchange Server Roles view and displays the following metrics about the mailbox stores on the selected server. | |||
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Store Client Instance. This list displays the following details for each store client instance in the store database: | |||
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This view appears when Mailbox is selected on the Exchange Server Roles view and displays the following transport metrics for the selected server. | |
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Transport Queues tab. For details, see Exchange Server Roles view - Hub Transport - Transport Queues view. | |
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Transport Database tab. For details, see Exchange Server Roles view - Hub Transport - Transport Databases view. | |
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SMTP Send and Receive Load tab. For details, see Exchange Server Roles view - Hub Transport - SMTP Receive and Transport Load view. | |
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This view appears when Mailbox is selected on the Exchange Server Roles view and displays the following metrics about the mailbox stores on the selected server. | |||||
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Directory Access Failures. This graph charts the number of times attempts to access Active Directory® failed. It provides a comparison against the computed average for the specified time interval. | |||||
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Total Inbound Calls Rejected. This graph charts the following metrics over the specified time interval:
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Operations over Six Seconds. This counter displays the number of all UM operations that took more than six seconds to complete. This is the time during which a caller was waiting for Unified Messaging to respond. | |||||
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This view appears when Mailbox is selected on the Exchange Server Roles view and displays the following metrics about the selected server. | |
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For details, see Exchange Server Roles view - Client Access - OWA view | |
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This view appears when Unified Messaging is selected on the Exchange Server Roles view and displays the following availability metrics for the selected Exchange server. | |||||
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Access Failures. This graph charts the following metrics over the specified time interval:
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Directory Access Failures. This graph charts the number of times attempts to access Active Directory® failed. It provides a comparison against the computed average for the specified time interval. | |||||
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Call Answer Queued Messages. This counter displays the number of voice messages or missed calls submitted from the bridgehead server or Hub Transport server. | |||||
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Unhandled Exceptions/sec. This counter displays the number of unhandled exceptiones that occurred per second. | |||||
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Total Inbound Calls Rejected. This graph charts the following metrics over the specified time interval:
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Operations over Six Seconds. This counter displays the number of all UM operations that took more than six seconds to complete. This is the time during which a caller was waiting for Unified Messaging to respond. | |||||
Exchange Servers in This Cluster view
This embedded view is part of the Exchange Cluster Explorer Summary view when an individual cluster object is selected in the Exchange Infrastructure view on the Exchange Explorer dashboard.
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State. Indicates the highest alarm triggered for each server. | |
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Name. Displays the name of each Exchange server. | |
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IP Address. Displays the IP address of each server. | |
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Roles. Displays the Exchange roles being performed by each server. NOTE: Multi-Role indicates that the server is performing multiple Exchange roles. Hover your cursor over the Multi-Role entry to display a list of the roles being performed by the server. | |
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CPU. Displays the current CPU utilization on the server. | |
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Memory. Displays the current memory utilization on the server. | |
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Exchange Version. Displays the version of Exchange installed on each server. | |
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Operating System. Displays the Windows® operating system running on the server. | |
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Replication Service. Indicates the current state of the replication service. | |
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Cluster Service. Indicates the current state of the cluster service. | |
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Exchange Server row. Displays the Exchange Server Explorer Summary view for the selected server. |
Exchange Servers view (Exchange Cluster Environment Summary)
This embedded view is part of the Exchange Cluster Environment Summary view, which is displayed when an individual cluster is selected in the Object Tree view in the Exchange Environment dashboard.
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This view displays the Exchange servers that make up the cluster selected in the Object Tree view. | |
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State. Indicates the highest alarm triggered for each server. | |
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Name. Displays the name of each Exchange server. | |
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Replication Service. Indicates the current state of the replication service. | |
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Cluster Service. Indicates the current state of the cluster service. | |
Exchange Servers view
This embedded view is part of the Exchange Servers Explorer Summary (All Exchange Servers) view, Exchange Sites Explorer Summary (All Sites) view, and Exchange Site Explorer Summary view.
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State. Indicates the highest alarm triggered for each server. | |
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Name. Displays the name of each Exchange server. | |
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IP Address. Displays the IP address of each server. | |
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Roles. Displays the Exchange roles being performed by each server. NOTE: Multi-Role indicates that the server is performing multiple Exchange roles. Hover your cursor over the Multi-Role entry to display a list of the roles being performed by the server. | |
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CPU. Displays the current CPU utilization on the server. | |
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Memory. Displays the current memory utilization on the server. | |
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Exchange Version. Displays the version of Exchange installed on each server. | |
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Operating System. Displays the Windows® operating system running on the server. | |
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Exchange Server row. Displays the Exchange Server Explorer Summary view for the selected server. |