MS Exchange Health Check - Overview

You have a Microsoft Exchange system providing mail services to your business, but you are starting to get performance issues.

These issues have manifested themselves in poor performance or perhaps even an increased number of incidents to the service desk.

Alternatively you may not be currently experiencing performance issues but you’re keen to check the current health of your Exchange environment but lack the skills to do so.

Metron’s Microsoft Exchange Server health check aims to provide these sorts of assurances. Using our enterprise performance software, our experienced consultants will remotely capture and then analyze the performance data of your Exchange system and provide guidance as to which areas are or have the potential to be causing performance issues.

Benefits
  • Provide assurance to the business that your Microsoft Exchange system is performing within industry standard thresholds
  • Resolve any performance issues currently experienced
  • Leverage the benefits of enterprise class performance software without the associated cost
  • Reassurance that your Exchange environment has sufficient capacity to meet the needs of your business
Deliverables
  • Conduct assessment of both the underlying hardware and Exchange environment using the Metron athene® software to collect and analyze performance data
  • Identify any performance bottlenecks and determine the potential capacity of your MS Exchange installation.
  • Performance health check report summarizing findings
Key Activities
Action
Responsibility
Kickoff call
All
Architecture review
All
Install configure athene®
Client
Analysis of data
Consultant
Generate report
Consultant
Review report
All
Scope and Pricing
  • $2,425 per MS Exchange installation *
  • Whilst the data is collected on-site via athene® the resulting analysis and report generation is done off-site. **
  • This service will be delivered by Metron’s uniquely skilled consultancy team
Requirements
  • This service supports Microsoft Exchange 2003 & 2005.
  • Sufficient environmental access to support WMI capture
  • Windows based computer running Windows 2003, XP, Vista, 2008 with MS .NET v2 framework installed
  • Sufficient network permissions to access Metron’s FTP site
Target Audience

Anyone who has an interest in ensuring that their Microsoft Exchange environment continues to perform well and provide mail services to the business.


* For a maximum of 3 node Exchange cluster. Additional hosts can be added at $145 per host.
** On site analysis and report generation is available for an additional cost.

Further information regarding Metron’s software and services is available by contacting sales@metron-athene.com