Transaction Log Tools

Dee Freeland · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 5

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

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Bharat Suneja [MVP] · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 1043

- 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
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"Dee Freeland" wrote in message @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

John Fullbright · Joined: 05 Aug 2007 Posts: 365

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 @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
> @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
>

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