1.1.1 What Mail Monitor Does

You use Mail Monitor from a client. Mail Monitor servers send information about network and mail usage to the client. The servers get the information from scanning modules, which run on the servers. Certain servers can behave as relays, which pass scanning information from another server to the client. You can group a number of servers or relays together in a domain, so that by managing the domain you issue identical instructions to all servers and relays in a domain.

In addition, the Windows client has a menu option that lets the client software use a manager; a manager runs on the client. The Control manager, for example, handles instructions to a module that runs on the server.

Figure 1-1 shows how all these parts of Mail Monitor fit together.

Figure 1-1 Components of Mail Monitor

Events that Mail Monitor can monitor include the following:

• Message queue congestion, message trace detail, and files that a mail product keeps for bad messages

• Logical names and devices

• Missing files

• Missing database records

• Application counters

• Processes and batch jobs