eG Monitoring
 

Measures reported by Exc2013SrchMonTest

Exchange Search is an important tool that significantly improves user productivity by enabling users to quickly locate critical email messages – a task that would otherwise take hours in a mailbox that is cluttered with thousands of messages! If this Exchange Search capability is not enabled on an Exchange server or is found to take too much time, it will result in many dissatisfied and unproductive users. To assure users of a high-quality user experience with their Exchange mailboxes, administrators must continuously track the status and performance of the Exchange Search feature and proactively spot anomalies. This is exactly what the Exc2013SrchMonTest test does.

This test reports whether/not the Exchange Search feature is currently enabled on a configured mailbox; if enabled, the test further reports how long Exchange Search takes to complete search queries on that mailbox. In the process, the test sheds light on the unavailability of the Exchange Search capability on a mailbox and inconsistencies in its performance.

The measures made by this test are as follows:

Measurement Description Measurement Unit Interpretation
Status Indicates the current status of Exchange Search on this mailbox.   The values that this measure can report and their corresponding numeric values are listed below:

Measure Value Numeric Value
True 0
False 1

If the status reported by this measure is False, you can use the detailed diagnosis of this test to know what errors.

Note:

Typically, this measure reports the Measure Values listed in the table above to indicate status of each replication-related activity that is monitored. However, in the graph of this measure, the Numeric values are used to represent replication health.
Srch_time Indicates the time taken to complete the search queries on this mailbox. Secs A low value is desired for this measure. A sudden/gradual increase in the value of this measure is a cause of concern as this may be due to the unavailability of the Exchange Search capability or the inconsistencies in the performance of the mailbox.