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.
Exchange2007_HubTransportServer
Exchange2007_EdgeTransportServer
Exchange2010_HubTransportServer
Exchange2010_EdgeTransportServer
Exchange2013_ClientAccessServer
Exchange2013_HubTransportServer
Exchange2016_HubTransportServer
Exchange2019_HubTransportServer
By default, this script runs every 15 minutes.
Set the following parameters as needed:
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How to Set It |
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General Settings |
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Job failure event notification |
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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 |
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Monitor Receive Connectors |
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Event Notification |
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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 |
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Event Notification |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |