Monitoring system activity and server performance is a necessary part of preventive maintenance for the server running Exchange 2000 Server. Through monitoring, you obtain data that you can use to diagnose system problems, plan growth, and troubleshoot problems.
Monitoring system activity and server performance is a necessary part of preventive maintenance for the server running Exchange 2000 Server. Through monitoring, you obtain data that you can use to diagnose system problems, plan growth, and troubleshoot problems. You can use the Exchange 2000 Monitoring and Status tool, diagnostic logging, extended logging, and Queue Viewer, to keep up-to-date on the status of your Exchange 2000 servers.

You can also use Windows 2000 tools such as Performance Monitor, Event Viewer, Task Manager, and Terminal Services Client, to ensure you have current information about how Exchange Server and the network are operating. Two additional services, Network Monitor and the DOS Network Diagnosis tool (Netdiag), provide additional network monitoring information.
Exchange 2000 runs two processes you can view using Task Manager: Store.exe and Inetinfo.exe.
Note Even if you have more than one virtual server running on a server, only one instance of Store.exe and Inetinfo.exe exists.

Note Because of architectural differences between the monitoring user interfaces in Microsoft Exchange 5.5 and Exchange 2000 Server, mixed mode networks require that you use both monitoring systems. You can use the Exchange 2000 Server monitoring system to monitor Exchange 2000 Server only, and you can use the Exchange 5.5 monitoring system to monitor Exchange 5.5 only. However, when you are in native mode you can monitor by using only the Exchange 2000 Server monitoring system.

Exchange 2000 provides a number of features that assist you in monitoring and maintaining your Exchange server and network. These tools include the Monitoring and Status tool, extended logging and diagnostic logging.

Exchange 2000 is integrally linked to Windows 2000, so many of the tools you use to monitor Exchange Server and the network are part of the Windows 2000 operating system.

• Monitoring and Status Tool
  The Monitoring and Status tool, located in the Tools folder in Exchange System Manager, is the primary Exchange 2000 tool you use to monitor the health and status of your servers. The tool is composed of two user interfaces: Notifications and Status.
• Notifications
  You can use the Notifications user interface with the Status user interface to set up e-mail alerts or script triggers when a warning or critical state is reached on any of your servers. In the Status user interface, you can configure warning and critical states for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) and X.400 queues, available virtual memory, CPU activity, and free hard disk space for an array of Microsoft Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, and Exchange 2000 services.

Microsoft recommends that you move any scheduled maintenance to a different time slot than the time that the backup process runs. If you run both the scheduled maintenance and the backup process at the same time, it can cause issues with the Exchange 2000 Server or Exchange Server 2003 databases.
To change the scheduled maintenance times for the information stores:

1. In Exchange System Manager, right-click Mailbox Store.
2. Click the Database tab.
3. Click the Customize button.
4. Repeat steps 1 through 3 for Public Folder Store.