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RAK153 -> Exchange Server Services & Physical Disk Conditions (15.Jun.2009 11:23:32 PM)

Hi all

I can't seem to find any documentation on these two monitoring checks. I can probably guess which Exchange services are monitored however 'Physical Disk Conditions' is a little cryptic. Does anyone know what this monitoring check actually monitors? I've listed a few possibilities but if someone can confirm that would be great.

Is it check queue length?
Physical disk time?
S.M.A.R.T monitoring?
Fragmenatation?

Thanks

Ben



2dS -> RE: Exchange Server Services & Physical Disk Conditions (16.Jun.2009 2:07:36 AM)

The check named “Physical Disk Conditions” actually checks all the disks, from the specified computer, and if one of the disks has the status different from OK the check will fail. The check will also fail if no disks are found on the target computer.

If you like I could advise you which are the services supervised by the NSM Exchange check.



RAK153 -> RE: Exchange Server Services & Physical Disk Conditions (21.Jun.2009 7:30:28 PM)

Thanks for the feedback. Is it possible to define what passes as an 'OK' check? I'd like to know exactly what it is checking for.



2dS -> RE: Exchange Server Services & Physical Disk Conditions (22.Jun.2009 2:18:55 AM)

Behind this check there is a vbscript that is using WMI Win32_DiskDrive object, which is a representation of a physical disk drive as it is seen by Windows. From this Win32_DiskDrive object we are checking the value of Status item, which can be “OK”, “Degraded” or “Pred Fail” for an operational disk drive, or “OK”, "Error", "Starting", "Stopping", and "Service" for a nonoperational disk drive. More information about this can be found here.



RAK153 -> RE: Exchange Server Services & Physical Disk Conditions (22.Jun.2009 4:26:16 PM)

That's what I was looking for. Thanks



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