Attributes are metrics that you use to create situations that monitor for specific alerts or types of alerts. For example, you can create situations that monitor for alerts with a specific severity. When the values for attributes of alerts that are relayed to a management server match the values that you specify in situations, the managed objects that are associated with the situations change appearance, alerting you to problems.
The Monitoring Agent for Microsoft Exchange Server provides a variety of default workspaces. A table view within a workspace corresponds to a group of attributes, and the columns in the table view correspond to the attributes that are available for creating situations. The value of any attribute that is not applicable to the version of Microsoft® Exchange Server that you are running is displayed as Undefined.
This monitoring agent contains the following attribute groups, which are listed by common names:
The following sections contain descriptions of these attribute groups, which are listed alphabetically. Each description contains a list of attributes in the attribute group.