Performance Counters

As an Exchange component processes message transactions on your system, it generates performance data that Windows 2000 can track and log. The data is described as a performance object and is typically named for the component generating the data. Every performance object provides counters that represent data on specific aspects of the object; for example, to monitor message processing and connections for SMTP, select a performance object named SMTP Server and then identify the specific component you want to track by selecting a counter named Avg.Retries/msg Delivered. For all performance objects, you can select specific counters or you can track all counters.

The following table lists Exchange features such as Information Store. If you want to monitor the tasks that Information Store performs, you can use Windows 2000 Performance to select the Performance Object in the second column. Use the following table to identify the counters each Exchange component uses.