Chapter 11: Keeping Your Exchange Server Healthy

Chapter 11: Keeping Your Exchange Server Healthy

Introduction

To a certain degree, Exchange can be said to be self-maintaining. The engineers attempt to improve matters through knowledge is gained from operating Exchange in real-life environments. In Exchange V5.5, for instance, the MTA tunes its own internal demands and the Information Store attempts to manage memory better. You shouldn't have to continually perform system tuning to make everything run smoothly, but there are going to be times when things go wrong. In this chapter we'll look at some of the utilities that come with Exchange that help system administrators keep servers in shape.

Performance Optimizer

The Performance Optimizer utility is a somewhat intelligent program designed to analyze the current status of an active server and make changes based on:


	?	Information about the intended role for the server as input by a system administrator before the analysis begins (Figure 11.1). This allows the utility to consider what changes are required to enable the server to support an increase in the user community or the way the server is used. For example, a change in server workload from "messaging only" to a situation where messaging and public folders are supported.

Figure 11.1: Setting parameters for a Performance Optimizer run


	?	The I/O subsystem and disks installed on the server.


	?	The set of internal parameters currently in operation and performance data gathered by Exchange as it runs. Exchange continues to improve its ability to tune the internal workings of...

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