eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by XChgMailRetrvlTest

The XChgMailRetrvlTest monitors the performance of the POP3 and IMAP4 protocols in the Exchange 2000/2003/2007 Server. The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Curr_pop3_conn This measure shows the number of current POP3 connections to the server. Number A high value for this measure indicates that a large number of POP3 clients are connected to the Exchange 2000/2003/2007 Server.

This measure helps the administrator in planning or upgrading the following parameters:

1.      Server’s memory requirements

2.      Control of unnecessary traffic on the mail server

3.      Server’s processing capabilities

Curr_imap_conn This measure shows the number of current IMAP connections to the server. Number A high value for this measure indicates that a large number of IMAP clients are connected to the Exchange 2000/2003/2007 Server.

This measure helps the administrator in planning or upgrading the following parameters:

1.      Server’s memory requirements

2.      Control of unnecessary traffic on the mail server

3.      Server’s processing capabilities

Pop3_auth_failures This measure shows the number of POP3 authentication failures since the last measurement. Number A high value for this measure indicates that either the Exchange 2000/2003/2007 Server is down or invalid/erroneous user credentials is being used during authentication resulting in a failure.
Imap_auth_failures This measure shows the number of IMAP authentication failures since the last measurement. Number A high value for this measure indicates that either the Exchange 2000/2003/2007 Server is down or invalid/erroneous user credentials is being used during authentication resulting in a failure.