According to Microsoft, Systems Center Operations Manager cannot monitor clustered MSMQ's on Server 2003. The Microsoft rep referenced this article. and said it applied to our problem. So, my question is: what does the serverfault community recommend to monitor msmq's in a Server 2003 cluster?
What I am looking for is something to monitor the number of messages on the queues and send an alert if messages appear on the fault queue or if the messages back-up on the main queue.
Thanks!
Best Answer
If you just want to monitor queue depth, I would break out your powershell handbook or buy your favorite developer a beer or two and look into the .NET System.Messaging namespace. You can run a scheduled task every few minutes and get near-realtime alerting that way.