GroupShield 5.2 for Exchange 2000 Installation Guide - McAfee

Using the Microsoft Windows Performance Monitors
Installing the Software
When using the Microsoft Performance Monitors to evaluate and monitor
GroupShield, please be aware that some of the information presented by the
Performance monitor may not directly correspond to the number of e-mails
scanned.
When an e-mail is received by Microsoft Exchange 2000, it is broken down into
a number of items before being passed to GroupShield for scanning. The
number of items that a single message is broken down into depends upon the
type of mail message. This will typically be between one and three items for
the message body and at least one item for each attachment within the e-mail.
The Performance monitor displays the number of items that GroupShield
scans, but this may not correspond directly to the number of e-mails checked.
This also means that when you select “attachments” from the Performance
monitor, the monitor will count the number of items, not just the attachments.
Using Performance Monitors on clustered servers
To configure Microsoft Performance Monitors with clustered servers:
1 Select Start, Programs, Administrative Tools, Performance.
2 Right-click in the right-hand pane of the Performance window. Select Add
Counters.
3 Select the Select counters from computer option and select the
servername and virtual node from the list.
4 Select GroupShield Exchange from the Performance object list.
5 Select the counters and instance that you want to monitor.
6 Click Add.
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