However, Exchange is still difficult to manage because a system administrator must point and click, selecting one message at a time to examine causes for a delay in a queue. Additionally, there is no means of examining every aspect of the processing of an e-mail address. With PMDF, a system administrator can easily examine all steps in this process at the operating level in order to diagnose problems. Isolating problems faster Monitoring performance proactively for capacity planning Providing granular control over your system configuration PMDF logs every action that takes place during mail processing. These extensive log files allow a system administrator to analyze and isolate where a problem may reside.
System administrators can customize the level of detail they want to track.
PMDF 6.0 can monitor the overall health of a network by measuring loopback messages. PMDF can send out a message to the remote system and have it loop back to its origin. The outbound and the arrival of an inbound message can be analyzed for performance. Also, mail monitoring is available through the Mail Monitoring MIB, RFC 1566. Finally, a system administrator can test configuration changes or new installations locally before they are implemented globally.