Exchange 2007 Process Tracking Log (PTL)
Just been catching up on Email after my short break Snowboarding and came across the following from sent from one of our senior escalation engineers across the pond:
"There are many scenarios in Exchange 2007 Server which requires parsing, monitoring, and analyzing Message Tracking logs. For example, in transaction log file and / or Database growth scenarios, Server got hit with spam messages, Looping message scenario, Transport queue backup scenarios, and Server performance scenarios, and many other administrative, monitoring, and troubleshooting scenarios it absolutely becomes necessary to review and analyze Message Tracking Logs.
Process Tracking Log tool simplifies these tasks by automating the parsing and analysis of Message tracking logs, and then reporting it back by producing xls or txt output files with meaningful data, which is extremely useful in a lot of Administration, troubleshooting, and monitoring scenarios in Exchange 2007, as discussed above. Besides rich useful data regarding monitoring, administration, and troubleshooting, the tool also provides critical data on End-To-End Delivery Latency Distribution for all Messages Delivered, Server Latency Distribution for all Messages Processed and Server Latency Distribution for all Individual Deliveries. Please take time to run this tool in your customer scenarios, and take a good look at output files to see what this tool is capable of doing, and you will get a good idea of its strength and capabilities.
We have written a blog to explain the usage, as well as explained the various output data points with examples. The blog and the released tool can be found here:
Process Tracking Log tool for Exchange Server 2007"