GOexchange® Version 3.x is powerful, flexible, and offers the following features and functionality:
Advanced Configurations Select from Offline Diagnostic Report Documents that provides summary and detailed information regarding a planned specification that has completed., Full Maintenance The GOexchange module that provides maintenance functions for Microsoft Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003 and 2007 Servers., Analysis and Repair, or MTA Check only. GOexchange® also supports such advanced features such as: automated maintenance progress notification, integrated backup, automated scheduling options, and other sophisticated features.
Broad Scheduling Capabilities Administrators can schedule Operators can set the time, run time limit and repetition of a job unattended regular maintenance jobs for any server within their organization to automatically take place on specific days, times, and intervals.
Centralized Scalable Management MMC See Microsoft Management Console. based centralized management console provides administrators with the ability to configure, manage, schedule, and review preventative maintenance for all Exchange servers in their organization. GOexchange® also scales to meet the needs of large enterprise environments with hundreds of Exchange servers.
Cross-Platform Automatically detects which version of Exchange is installed, Exchange 5.5, 2000, or 2003, and then applies the appropriate rules and maintenance processes for each configuration.
Granular & Targeted Maintenance by server, storage group Container used to logically group exchange databases on a server. or individual store.
High Availability Integration Automatically detects and supports Microsoft Clustered Exchange servers in Active/Passive and Active/Active configurations.
Integrated Backup Best practices demand that a backup to disk or tape of the Exchange databases and other critical files is made prior to any maintenance process. To alleviate this tedious yet critical task, GOexchange® has built-in integration with existing enterprise backup solutions from CA, CommVault, EVault, Lucid8, Symantec, Ultrabac, and other leading backup solutions.
NOTE: If you have purchased Lucid8's DigiVault with Continuous Data Protection, it is not necessary to install the Backup Integration Agents onto a 3rd party backup server.
GOexchange® can initiate, monitor, and report the state of an Offline or Online Exchange backup job An object that represent the actions to take on an Exchange Server. Operators can select from a series of scripts to run against one or all databases, as well as custom processes, notifications backup actions and more. before and after Exchange maintenance.
If the associated backup job is successful, then maintenance will be allowed to proceed. If however, for some reason, the backup job fails, then GOexchange® will initiate a failover backup job via a secondary or tertiary backup server, if configured.
If failover backup servers are not configured and the primary backup job has failed, then GOexchange® will abort the maintenance process and notify the appropriate operator A users authorized to perform a GOexchange operation on an Exchange server. In order to be an Operator, a user must already have Enterprise Admin, Domain Admin, or Local Admin rights..
Knowledge Protection One of the pitfalls of employing a highly capable IT staff is the impact that employee turnover can have on your information infrastructure. When a well-trained administrator leaves your organization, their intimate knowledge of your Exchange system also goes out the door. GOexchange® has built-in expert knowledge that will continue to grow and serve your organization 24x7x365 to obtain complete and flawless execution each and every time for Exchange 5.5, 2000, 2003 and 2007.
Pre-Maintenance Notification Notify specific persons, all members of a particular group, or the entire organization weeks, days, or hours before a scheduled maintenance.
Post-Maintenance Notification Notify individual's or the entire group of GOexchange® operators that maintenance is complete and of any problems that occur and require attention.
Resource Checking Each maintenance job has several built-in resource checks to:
Ensure the required resources such as disk space, information stores and backup systems are available prior to each maintenance job. If there is a deficiency of any type, GOexchange® will notify the designated operators to correct the issue or abandon the scheduled maintenance.
Record the state of critical services prior to the start of a maintenance job so that upon completion of maintenance, all services are returned to the pre-maintenance state.
Security GOexchange® takes full advantage of Microsofts software security model to ensure that only authorized Exchange Administrators have access to its powerful features.
Unified Maintenance Reports GOexchange® documents every action that occurs during a maintenance configuration and job.
This includes a day, date, and time stamp feature providing a detailed audit trail.
Administrators can review both detail and summary maintenance details for each maintenance job.
Post maintenance summary reports can be automatically Emailed to designated individual's or groups.