Exchange Server Health Test
- Exchange Server Health tests detect problems by collecting and analyzing data or simulating user interaction with the Exchange servers at regular intervals
- It is recommended that you create one Exchange Server Health Tests against all of your Exchange Servers (100 or Less) and run the Test every 30 minutes and that does not Monitor the Windows Event Logs
- Run One Exchange Server Health Test Against all of your Exchange Servers once a day monitoring the Windows event logs
Internal Message Delivery Health Test
- The Exchange Internal Message Delivery Health Test allows you to monitor the ability to deliver email within your organization
- It is recommended to run this Test against all of your Mailbox or Backend servers every 30 minutes
- NOTE: You must manually create test mailboxes and match the name to the mailbox mask specified in the test configuration. For more information, see “Creating Test Mailboxes” in the Spotlight on Messaging Deployment Guide
External Message Delivery Health Test
- The Exchange External Message Delivery Health Test allows you to monitor the ability to send and receive email from sources outside your Exchange organization
- This Test needs to be created at the organization level and it is recommended to run this Test every 30 minutes
- NOTE: In order to monitor round-trip messages, the external mailbox must be configured to automatically bounce the message back to the original mailbox, then enable the Round-Trip Delivery counter in the test
Queue Health Test
- The Exchange Queue Health Test allows you to monitor the health of your Exchange message queues. This test allows you to ensure Messages are not backing up (that is, messages are being delivered in a timely manner) and a Large number of queues are not being created (for example in virus Outbreaks)
- It is recommended to run this test every 30 minutes against all of your Hub role servers in Exchange 2007/2010/2013/2016 or all servers if you are running Exchange 2003
Storage Health Test
- The Exchange Storage Health Test allows you to monitor the overall health of your Exchange storage subsystems. This test allows you to ensure the following:
- All of your stores or databases are mounted or healthy
- There is sufficient disk space on your Exchange system drive
- There is sufficient disk space for your transaction logs
- There is sufficient disk space for your mailbox database and public folder - It is recommended to run a Storage Health Test every 30 minutes against all of your Mailbox role servers when running Exchange 2007/2010/2013/2016 and against your back-end servers when running Exchange 2000/2003
Internal Outlook Web Access (OWA) Availability Health Test
- The Exchange Internal Outlook Web Access Availability Health test verifies a user can log on to a mailbox through Outlook Web Access (OWA) from inside your organization. The Exchange Internal Outlook Web Access Availability Health test monitors all sites configured within a CAS server. You cannot monitor one site at a time
- This test allows you to ensure the following:
- Mailbox is accessible
- Mailbox logon latency is within expected threshold - It is recommended running a Exchange Internal Outlook Web Access Availability Health every 30 minutes
- NOTE: This test uses internal server URL names only. It does not test external availability or OWA using your public URL
External Outlook Web Access (OWA) Availability Health Test
- The External OWA Availability Health Test monitors the availability of OWA functionality in your organization through an external URL. This test verifies that the users associated with the alternate credentials can logon to their mailboxes through an external OWA URL. This test is only applicable to organizations with at least one Exchange 2007/2010/2013/2016 server.
- It is recommended running the External Outlook Web Access (OWA) Availability Health Test every 30 minutes
- NOTE: This test uses an external or internal URL. If an external URL is specified, ensure that the DNS server can resolve this URL
Replication Health Test
- The Exchange Replication Health Test allows you to monitor the overall health of your transaction log replication on your Exchange 2007/ 2010/2013/2016 mailbox servers
- It is recommended running the Replication Health Test every 30 minutes against all of your Mailbox servers
- NOTE: Exchange 2003 mailboxes are not supported by this test
System Health Test
The Exchange System Health Test monitors health sets (groups of monitors) and health information on your
Exchange 2013/2016 server, verifying the state of each health set’s monitors. Monitors that are similar or are
related to a component’s architecture are grouped to form a health set. Health sets provide the health
information for applications and services such as Outlook Web App, Exchange ActiveSync, the Information Store
service, content indexing, and transport services on your Exchange 2013 and Exchange 2016 servers.
This test allows you to ensure the health state of health set (whether health or unhealthy).
You can run the system health test against Exchange 2013 and later.