4.37 Transport_ConnectorStatus

Use this Knowledge Script to monitor the status of send, receive, foreign, and delivery agent connectors on Exchange Servers. This script raises an event if any of the connector is disabled or an SMTP-based receive connector is not responding to SMTP requests.

NOTE:The delivery agent connectors are not applicable on Exchange Server 2007.

4.37.1 Resource Objects

  • Exchange2007_HubTransportServer

  • Exchange2007_EdgeTransportServer

  • Exchange2010_HubTransportServer

  • Exchange2010_EdgeTransportServer

  • Exchange2013_ClientAccessServer

  • Exchange2013_HubTransportServer

  • Exchange2016_HubTransportServer

  • Exchange2019_HubTransportServer

4.37.2 Default Schedule

By default, this script runs every 15 minutes.

4.37.3 Setting Parameter Values

Set the following parameters as needed:

Parameter

How to Set It

General Settings

Job failure event notification

Event severity when job fails

Set the severity level, from 1 to 40, to indicate the importance of an event in which the Transport_ConnectorStatus job fails. The default is 5.

Monitor Connectors

Monitor Receive Connectors

Event Notification

Raise event if any receive connector is disabled

Select Yes to raise an event if any of the connector to receive messages on Exchange Server is disabled. The default is Yes.

The receive connectors receive e-mail from a Mailbox server or from the Internet when an Edge role is not set up in the Exchange environment.

Comma-separated list of receive connectors to ignore

Specify a list of receive connectors separated by a comma, in the <hostname>\<connectorname> format that you want to exclude from monitoring.

Event severity when any receive connector is disabled

Set the severity level, from 1 to 40, to indicate the importance of an event in which a connector to receive messages on Exchange Server is disabled. The default is 5.

Raise event if an enabled receive connector does not respond to SMTP requests?

Select Yes to raise an event if a receive connector is unable to respond to SMTP requests. The default is Yes.

Event severity when a receive connector does not respond to SMTP requests

Set the severity level, from 1 to 40, to indicate the importance of an event in which a receive connector is unable to respond to SMTP requests. The default is 5.

Monitor Send Connectors

Event Notification

Raise event if any send connector is disabled

Select Yes to raise an event if a connector to send messages from Exchange Server is disabled. The default is Yes.

The send connectors send e-mail to the mailbox of the intended recipient or to the Edge Transport server for delivery to another domain.

Comma-separated list of send connectors to ignore

Specify a list of send connector names, separated by a comma, that you want to exclude from monitoring.

Event severity when any send connector is disabled

Set the severity level, from 1 to 40, to indicate the importance of an event in which a connector to send messages from Exchange Server is disabled. The default is 5.

Monitor Foreign Connectors

Raise event if any foreign connector is disabled?

Select Yes to raise an event if a foreign connector is disabled. The default is Yes.

The foreign connectors move e-mail to a server within the organization that does not communicate using SMTP.

Comma-separated list of foreign connectors to ignore

Specify a list of foreign connector names, separated by a comma, that you want to exclude from monitoring.

Event severity when any foreign connector is disabled

Set the severity level, from 1 to 40, to indicate the importance of an event in which a foreign connector is disabled. The default is 5.

Monitor Delivery Agent Connectors

Raise event if any delivery agent connector is disabled?

Select Yes to raise an event if a delivery agent connector is disabled. The default is Yes.

Comma-separated list of delivery agent connectors to ignore

Specify a list of delivery agent connector names, separated by a comma, that you want to exclude from monitoring.

Event severity when any delivery agent connector is disabled

Set the severity level, from 1 to 40, to indicate the importance of an event in which a delivery agent connector is disabled. The default is 5.