[ExchangeList] Re: Monitoring rpc/https remotely in Exchange 2003 / 2007

PS C:\> rpcping -t ncacn_http -s <internal-exchange-server-name> -o
RpcProxy=<external-exchange-server-name> -P
"proxy-user,proxy-domain,proxy-pass" -I
"exch-user,exch-domain,exch-pass" -H 1 -F 3 -u 10 -a connect -v 3 -R
none -E

 

That's all one line.

 

Note: the password is in clear text. You shouldn't batch this with a
user who has any "real" credentials.

 

The proxy and exchange information are probably identical, so, let's use
these values:

 

User: test-user

Domain: example

Pass: test-pass

<internal-exchange-server-name>: exch.example.local

<external-exchange-server-name>:mail.example.com

 

PS C:\> rpcping -t ncacn_http -s exch.example.local -o
RpcProxy=mail.example.com -P "test-user,example,test-pass" -I
"test-user,example,test-pass" -H 1 -F 3 -u 10 -a connect -v 3 -R none -E

RPCPing v2.12. Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation, 2002

OS Version is: 6.0

 

RPCPinging proxy server mail.example.com with Echo Request Packet

Sending ping to server

Response from server received: 200

Pinging successfully completed in 250 ms

 

Change the "-v 3" to "-v 1" and get:

 

Pinging successfully completed in 188 ms

 

I should write a blog article on this. Wrap it up in a PS script and
stuff and it's very useful.

 

 

From: exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:exchangelist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jabber Wock
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 12:19 PM
To: [ExchangeList]
Subject: [ExchangeList] Monitoring rpc/https remotely in Exchange 2003 /
2007

 

Hi all,

 

DFoes anyone know of a way to perform automated monitoring of rpc/https
for Exchange?  In other words, I would like to test whether RPC/HTTPS is
working from a remote location, automatically, every few minutes.  I
expect this will require a script running on the external tester which
could be a windows or Linux system I guess.  I know how to test port 443
telnet but that is not sufficient, I need to test more in-depth and
actually log into a test account over RPC/HTTPC every few minutes. 

 

Any suggestions?  Has anyone written such a script or know of a program
that does this?  (the usual commercial monitoring programs that I know
of do not handle this as far as I know).

 

TIA!

 

JW

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