Two questions: 1. Are there any tools that allow you to read transaction logs? 2. Are there any tools that will report on average how much mail is coming into your network? Any help would be appreciated. thanks -- dee
- There's nothing to "read' in the transaction logs. Specifically, if you want to read email content - you can't really "read" the Exchange database or transaction logs using some out-of-band tool. Were it possible, I'm not sure many folks would use Exchange. - To get stats/reports related to mailflow, you need to look at the Message Tracking logs. You can roll your own tools/scripts/code to create reports based on these, or use third-party reporting tools like Quest MessageStats, Promodag, etc. If you have MOM/SCOM, it does some reporting as well. -- Bharat Suneja MVP - Exchange www.zenprise.com NEW blog location: exchangepedia.com/blog ---------------------------- "Dee Freeland" wrote in message news:EFC05302-42CF-4720-8C5B-BDDEE2E0C976@microsoft.com... > Two questions: > > 1. Are there any tools that allow you to read transaction logs? > 2. Are there any tools that will report on average how much mail is coming > into your network? > > Any help would be appreciated. > > thanks -- dee
http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Exchange-2007-Message-Tracking-Part1.html http://www.msexchange.org/tutorials/Exchange-2007-Message-Tracking-Part2.html Should be helpful. You can also use the logparser utility from the IIS 6.0 reskit to parse the message tracking logs. "Bharat Suneja [MVP]" wrote in message news:uO4ihWybIHA.1132@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... >- There's nothing to "read' in the transaction logs. Specifically, if you >want to read email content - you can't really "read" the Exchange database >or transaction logs using some out-of-band tool. Were it possible, I'm not >sure many folks would use Exchange. > - To get stats/reports related to mailflow, you need to look at the > Message Tracking logs. You can roll your own tools/scripts/code to create > reports based on these, or use third-party reporting tools like Quest > MessageStats, Promodag, etc. If you have MOM/SCOM, it does some reporting > as well. > > -- > Bharat Suneja > MVP - Exchange > www.zenprise.com > NEW blog location: > exchangepedia.com/blog > ---------------------------- > > > > "Dee Freeland" wrote in message > news:EFC05302-42CF-4720-8C5B-BDDEE2E0C976@microsoft.com... >> Two questions: >> >> 1. Are there any tools that allow you to read transaction logs? >> 2. Are there any tools that will report on average how much mail is >> coming >> into your network? >> >> Any help would be appreciated. >> >> thanks -- dee >
