How to Discover Microsoft Exchange Server 2003 by WMI

This task explains how to discover MS Exchange Server 2003 using the WMI protocol.

1. Prerequisite - Set up protocol credentials

   This discovery is based on the WMI protocol.

   For credential information, see Supported Protocols.

   Information about Exchange is taken from the root\MicrosoftExchangeV2 namespace.

2. Prerequisite - Set up permissions

   You must enable read-only permissions for the root\MicrosoftExchangeV2 WMI namespace. In some cases the root\cimv2 namespace is also needed (with read-only permissions). For details, see Troubleshooting and Limitations – Microsoft Exchange Server by WMI Discovery.

3. Run the discovery

   Activate the following jobs:

   • Network Infrastructure Discovery:

   1. Run Host Connection > Host Connection by WMI to discover WMI CITs.

   2. Run any of the Host Resources jobs and Host Applications jobs that gather information about processes running on a host. If a process named emsmta.exe or exmgmt.exe is discovered on a host, the Microsoft Exchange Connection by WMI job is triggered.

   • Enterprise Applications > Microsoft Exchange

   1. Run Microsoft Exchange Connection by WMI. This job reports the server that is actually running on this host. To discover other Exchange servers, you must run this job on each host where Exchange is running. The job creates Exchange CITs.

      This job connects to the remote host by WMI to the root\MicrosoftExchangeV2 namespace.

      The following WMI queries are executed:

      SELECT AdministrativeNote, CreationTime, ExchangeVersion, FQDN, GUID, MTADataPath, MessageTrackingEnabled, MessageTrackingLogFileLifetime, MessageTrackingLogFilePath, MonitoringEnabled, Type FROM Exchange_Server
      

      This query returns all Exchange servers present in the Exchange organization.

   2. The Exchange CI created by Microsoft Exchange Connection by WMI job acts as a trigger for the Microsoft Exchange Topology by WMI job. The Trigger CI connects to the host where Exchange is running and retrieves the complete topology. (For details on troubleshooting error messages, see Troubleshooting and Limitations – Microsoft Exchange Server by WMI Discovery.)

      This job connects to the remote host by WMI to the root\MicrosoftExchangeV2 namespace. The following WMI queries are executed (order is preserved):

      SELECT AdministrativeGroup, DN, FQDN, Name, RoutingGroup FROM Exchange_Server
      SELECT AdministrativeGroup, AdministrativeNote, CreationTime, Description, GUID, Name, RootFolderURL FROM Exchange_FolderTree
      SELECT AddressBookName, AdministrativeNote, Comment, ContactCount, FolderTree, FriendlyUrl, IsMailEnabled, Path, Url FROM Exchange_PublicFolder