ExBPA Reports   

Hello,

I have MOM 2005 with the ExBPA MP and tool running on each Exchange 2003 
server.

The tool creates a report daily in the 
c:\programfiles\exbpa\exchange.server.data xml file, correct?

And if there is anything in that report we should know about, it raises an 
alert in MOM 2005 operation console?

I'm only asking because I do not see any alerts except for the following in 
the MOM 2005 Ops Console:


Name: Error running ExBPA Org run with exit code 9 
Severity: Error 
Resolution State: Resolved 
Time of First Event: 2/20/2006 11:10:01 PM 
Time of Last Event: 2/20/2006 11:10:01 PM 
Alert latency: 0 sec 
Problem State: Investigate 
Repeat Count: 0 
Age: 2 hours, 20 min, 0 sec 
Source: ExBPA Execution 
Alert Id: 
Rule (enabled): Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer Tool\ExBPA 
Org rules\Daily ExBPA run (Organization)

date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 09:33:26 -0800   author:   Exchange2003

Re: ExBPA Reports   

Hi there,

Yes, the MOM agent runs a script which executes the command-line version of 
ExBPA (i.e. ExBPACmd). This is run with the -p Events:Enable switch which 
cause any Errors/Warnings to be created in the Application Log. Therefore, 
the output XML is just for your reference - all the data that MOM needs from 
ExBPA will have been sent to the event log.

However, from the error below, it appears that the MOM agent isn't able to 
execute the Org run. Exit code 9 means 'Path not found' (see 
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/create_method_in_class_win32_process.asp 
for a listing of all the errors). The script is hard-coded to execute ExBPA 
from \Program Files\ExBPA so you should double-check this. Also, ExBPA needs 
to be installed on the MOM management server.

Cheers,
-- 
Paul Bowden
Program Manager
Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer
http://www.microsoft.com/exchange/analyzers

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"Exchange2003"  wrote in message 
news:C273B498-2FAF-41C4-9820-1619AE1DC08A@microsoft.com...
> Hello,
>
> I have MOM 2005 with the ExBPA MP and tool running on each Exchange 2003
> server.
>
> The tool creates a report daily in the
> c:\programfiles\exbpa\exchange.server.data xml file, correct?
>
> And if there is anything in that report we should know about, it raises an
> alert in MOM 2005 operation console?
>
> I'm only asking because I do not see any alerts except for the following 
> in
> the MOM 2005 Ops Console:
>
>
> Name: Error running ExBPA Org run with exit code 9
> Severity: Error
> Resolution State: Resolved
> Time of First Event: 2/20/2006 11:10:01 PM
> Time of Last Event: 2/20/2006 11:10:01 PM
> Alert latency: 0 sec
> Problem State: Investigate
> Repeat Count: 0
> Age: 2 hours, 20 min, 0 sec
> Source: ExBPA Execution
> Alert Id:
> Rule (enabled): Microsoft Exchange Server Best Practices Analyzer 
> Tool\ExBPA
> Org rules\Daily ExBPA run (Organization)
>
>

date: Tue, 21 Feb 2006 10:37:32 -0800   author:   Paul Bowden [MSFT]