Monitor Exchange

Monitor Exchange Servers and Databases Using The Email Round Trip Sensor

PRTG Network Monitor is Paessler's powerful LAN and WAN monitoring software. The network utility checks the availability of network devices, tracks bandwidth usage, and gives you a complete overview of your network. PRTG's Email Round Trip Sensor allows you to monitor Exchange 2003 and 2007 availability and performance and ensure email end-to-end delivery.

In order to test your own mail servers' delivery to external mail accounts, you need a third party mail account on the Internet. Our experience is that round trip monitoring works very well with Google Mail, as it operates reliably and there are virtually no downtimes on Google's side (which means practically no false alarms).

This way, the PRTG Exchange Monitor checks whether your Exchange server delivers emails to the outside world, and whether email can be delivered to your email server. If you monitor Exchange, you can also see the time it takes for an email to be sent and delivered.

PRTG includes specific sensors which allow you to monitor Exchange 2003 and 2007. Moreover, for standard SMTP monitoring, POP3 and IMAP sensors check the availability of these services and inform you should an outage occur.

PRTG - Monitor Exchange, Network Traffic, Events, and More

In addition to email and Exchange monitoring, PRTG can be used for bandwidth, availability, and performance monitoring. Its event monitoring and threshold monitoring abilities help you to detect all network issues at an early stage. Furthermore, you can monitor log files, internet usage, windows services, and use PRTG as a network mapping software. Although PRTG needs to run on a Windows computer, you can also use the software for Linux network monitoring.