The Exchange Mailbox (Powershell) sensor monitors mailboxes of an Exchange server using Remote PowerShell. It shows several states of remote mailbox sensor a mailbox, for example, total size of items, the number of items, and the time of the last login.

Note: The parent device for this sensor must be an Exchange server version 2007 or higher.

For this sensor type credentials for Windows systems must be defined for the device you want to use the sensor on.

Requirement: Remote PowerShell and Remote Exchange Management Shell

This sensor type uses PowerShell commands. In order to monitor devices with this sensor, Remote PowerShell and Remote Exchange Management Shell have to be enabled on the server. Ensure that you have installed PowerShell 2.0 or later on your probe machine. For more information, please see section More below.

Requirement: Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN)

In order to connect to Exchange servers, this sensor type needs the fully qualified domain name (FQDN). In PRTG’s device settings of the Exchange server, provide the FQDN instead of the IP address. For more information, please see section More below.

Requirement: Elevated Rights

The user of this sensor needs elevated rights on the Exchange system. It is not sufficient to have administrator rights. Please see section More below for detailed information on rights management.

Add Sensor

The Add Sensor dialog appears when adding a new sensor on a device manually. It only shows the setting fields that are imperative for creating the sensor. Therefore, you will not see all setting fields in this dialog. You can change all settings in the sensor’s Settings tab later.

In order to monitor mailboxes of Exchange servers, PRTG will create one sensor for each mailbox you choose. The settings you make in this dialog are valid for all of the sensors that are created.