New Exchange 2007 Management Pack and Keeping Old Management Pack Data

re: New Exchange 2007 Management Pack and Keeping Old Management Pack Data

Steven.Halsey — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:39:38 GMT

The best place to get answers for questions about the Exchange MP is the System Center forum in particular the management pack section (http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/operationsmanagermgmtpacks/threads). Myself, and many MVPs who work with the MP look there regularly.

As to the cluster not monitored, this is likely normal. The Exchange MP monitors the Exchange Virtual Server network name, but not the other network names that are in the cluster. By default the network names of a cluster will not be monitored unless an MP specifically monitors them.

re: New Exchange 2007 Management Pack and Keeping Old Management Pack Data

richard — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 18:44:31 GMT

our Exchange cluster mailboxes are showing up as "not monitored" once we went to R2. However I can see data for these mailbox clusters.

re: New Exchange 2007 Management Pack and Keeping Old Management Pack Data

Pascal Slijkerman — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:32:45 GMT

Hi Steven.

Is this Management pack also gonna be availible for SCOM 2007 without R2?

I love to get rid of the converted MP for exchange 2007...

Best Regards

re: New Exchange 2007 Management Pack and Keeping Old Management Pack Data

Michel kamp — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 10:04:08 GMT

Steven,

Some add-on on my last post. You can disable the exchange discovery’s as long you do NOT run the “Remove-DisabledMonitoringObject” cmdlet . Be aware even if you run this cmdlet for a other discovery it will delete also the exchange targets belonging to the disabled discovery’s.

Michel

re: New Exchange 2007 Management Pack and Keeping Old Management Pack Data

Steven.Halsey — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:04:17 GMT

Hi Michel,

You are correct the discoveries should not be disabled. I accidentally posted the wrong MP originally, and have updated it to not disable the discoveries so the converted MPs Exchange objects should remain along with their data.

re: New Exchange 2007 Management Pack and Keeping Old Management Pack Data

Michel kamp — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:35:09 GMT

Hi,

Some addonns on your good post:

You are only talking about keeping the historical data thats in the operations database I guess. Because the data in the DHW is not groomed until the specified limiet. Most people only use the DWH for there historical reporting.

p.s I guess we must NOT to disbale the old converted exchange discoverys if we use your mp. Other wise the exchange targets will be groomed afterall (24h) and then also the historical data stored in the operational db.

michel.