Bridgehead attribute

[Steven Halsey [MSFT]]

The Exchange Servers themselves don't actually have a bridgehead attribute.
You need to look at the connectors to see what the source and target servers
are.
Don't have a sample script on hand, but look into LDAP query scripts as the
attributes are readily exposed to LDAP as long as you have Exchange
permissions. You may have to do some logic to turn the DN given as the
bridgehead to the Server Object, Meaning the Bridgehead attribute generally
points to the SMTP object that lives under the actual transport server
object.

For Exchange 2003 Routing Group Connectors:
- The object type is msExchRoutingGroupConnector
- The Attributes to look at are msExchSourceBridgeheadServersDN and
msExchTargetBridgeheadServersDN

For Exchange 2003 X400 Connectors there should be similar attributes on the
x400 connector, although they will be named differently.

For Exchange 2007 you want to look for object type
msExchRoutingSMTPConnector, and the source bridgehead will be
msExchSourceBridgeheadServersDN. Target Bridgehead will be external to the
Organization.
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Steven Halsey [MSFT]

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Hi
Does anyone knows where the AttributeValue(Bridgehead Server) is located ,
I mean how it works for exchange servers (to get only the bridgehead
servers) and where (if is a script or whatever) is located (to check if I
can open the file and understando how it works.
Regards

[Steven Halsey [MSFT]]

In Operations Manager 2007 the bridgehead isn't discovered specifically. The
monitoring criteria the Operations Manager 2007 Exchange 2003 MP is the same
for all the Exchange 2003 Servers. Since all the servers have an SMTP
transport stack it is monitored the same if it is a bridgehead or a mailbox
server. The only attribute present on the Exchange 2003 Monitoring Objects
in the MP is FrontEnd, which does cause some differences in monitoring.

If you meant for the MOM 2005 MP, I am afraid I don't know. I would try
posing in one of the MOM 2005 Specific Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.mom.managementpack
microsoft.public.mom.managementpack.exchange
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Steven Halsey [MSFT]

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Hello Steven Halsey [MSFT],
Thanks, but how it works for MOM? Which script or whatever, MOM uses to
check this conditon in Exchange 2003
and take the action to override the rule (e.g)?
Regards

Post by Steven Halsey [MSFT]
The Exchange Servers themselves don't actually have a bridgehead attribute.
You need to look at the connectors to see what the source and target servers
are.
Don't have a sample script on hand, but look into LDAP query scripts as the
attributes are readily exposed to LDAP as long as you have Exchange
permissions. You may have to do some logic to turn the DN given as the
bridgehead to the Server Object, Meaning the Bridgehead attribute generally
points to the SMTP object that lives under the actual transport server
object.
- The object type is msExchRoutingGroupConnector
- The Attributes to look at are msExchSourceBridgeheadServersDN and
msExchTargetBridgeheadServersDN
For Exchange 2003 X400 Connectors there should be similar attributes
on the x400 connector, although they will be named differently.
For Exchange 2007 you want to look for object type
msExchRoutingSMTPConnector, and the source bridgehead will be
msExchSourceBridgeheadServersDN. Target Bridgehead will be external
to the Organization.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Use of included samples are subject to the terms specified at
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Hi
Does anyone knows where the AttributeValue(Bridgehead Server) is located ,
I mean how it works for exchange servers (to get only the bridgehead
servers) and where (if is a script or whatever) is located (to check if I
can open the file and understando how it works.
Regards

[Marcelo Moraes]

Hello Steven Halsey [MSFT],

Thanks

I'll check there

Post by Steven Halsey [MSFT]
In Operations Manager 2007 the bridgehead isn't discovered
specifically. The monitoring criteria the Operations Manager 2007
Exchange 2003 MP is the same for all the Exchange 2003 Servers.
Since all the servers have an SMTP transport stack it is monitored the
same if it is a bridgehead or a mailbox server. The only attribute
present on the Exchange 2003 Monitoring Objects in the MP is FrontEnd,
which does cause some differences in monitoring.
If you meant for the MOM 2005 MP, I am afraid I don't know. I would
microsoft.public.mom.managementpack
microsoft.public.mom.managementpack.exchange
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Hello Steven Halsey [MSFT],
Thanks, but how it works for MOM? Which script or whatever, MOM uses to
check this conditon in Exchange 2003
and take the action to override the rule (e.g)?
Regards

Post by Steven Halsey [MSFT]
The Exchange Servers themselves don't actually have a bridgehead attribute.
You need to look at the connectors to see what the source and target servers
are.
Don't have a sample script on hand, but look into LDAP query scripts as the
attributes are readily exposed to LDAP as long as you have Exchange
permissions. You may have to do some logic to turn the DN given as the
bridgehead to the Server Object, Meaning the Bridgehead attribute generally
points to the SMTP object that lives under the actual transport server
object.
- The object type is msExchRoutingGroupConnector
- The Attributes to look at are msExchSourceBridgeheadServersDN and
msExchTargetBridgeheadServersDN
For Exchange 2003 X400 Connectors there should be similar attributes
on the x400 connector, although they will be named differently.
For Exchange 2007 you want to look for object type
msExchRoutingSMTPConnector, and the source bridgehead will be
msExchSourceBridgeheadServersDN. Target Bridgehead will be external
to the Organization.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
Use of included samples are subject to the terms specified at
http://www.microsoft.com/info/cpyright.htm

Hi
Does anyone knows where the AttributeValue(Bridgehead Server) is located ,
I mean how it works for exchange servers (to get only the
bridgehead
servers) and where (if is a script or whatever) is located (to
check
if I
can open the file and understando how it works.
Regards