Checking Status of Exchange 2010 Mailbox Store without check_nt

[Ryan McHugh]

On Thu, 16 Jun 2011, Terry Carmen wrote:

> Quoting Ryan McHugh <ryan.mchugh at techtell.com>:
>
>> I have been looking for a way to check the status of the Exchange Mailbox
>> Store with out using the check_nt daemon.  I do not have the option of
>> installing anything on the exchange server at this time but can have WMI /
>> RPC / snmp connections.  Does anyone know of a way to check and see if the
>> Store is mounted, either directly or indrectly?  I may have access to the
>> OWA but not POP/IMAP to try a client connect / html parse if there are
>> tools for that.
>
> You can setup auto-reply on a mailbox that lives in the store you're monitoring, send it an email and see if you get back the expected reply.
>
> There is so much that can go wrong in Exchange that sending it an actual email and checking to see if you get the expected response is much more reliable than monitoring indirect statistics and settings.
>
> Terry
>

We already send a message in and have it forwarded back to us.  This does 
not detect a disconnected mailbox store because the queue processes the 
message and drops it back in the outbound queue.  Does the auto-responder 
still work with a disconnected mailbox store?
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