The Cliff Notes on System Attendant (MAD.EXE)

re: The Cliff Notes on System Attendant (MAD.EXE)

Sri — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 22:38:03 GMT

Thanks for the info, I hope to see these kind of posts for all the core exchange services in future..

I have a question related to SA and WMI,
Apart from updating routing table thru WMI does SA uses WMI for anyother functions ?

Thanks

The Cliff Notes on System Attendant (MAD.EXE)

The Lazyadmin.com — Mon, 13 Jun 2005 20:40:46 GMT

Very informative posting over at Exchange Team Blog on the System Attendant service, aka MAD.EXE.

"The Exchange System Attendant is a multi-faceted and sometimes mysterious service. To remove some of the mystery & hopefully provide a bit of clarity

Weekend reading

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re: The Cliff Notes on System Attendant (MAD.EXE)

Amanda — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 20:18:14 GMT

Per the question on WMI & SA...
MAD only uses WMI for monitoring.
Essentially, MAD makes WMI calls to get the state of the CPU, Memory, etc... and then makes a WMI call to update the routing table.

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re: The Cliff Notes on System Attendant (MAD.EXE)

Eric — Fri, 01 Jul 2005 12:09:29 GMT

I have a question about dsaccess:
does the process really make a discovery of the availaible DC or he retreive the list from Active directory ?