The “Disable Server Monitoring” feature is enabled.

Overview

Finding ID	Version	Rule ID	IA Controls	Severity
V-18767	EMG2-833 Exch2K3	SV-20464r1_rule	ECAR-2	Medium

Description
Monitors are automated “process watchers” that respond to performance changes, and can be useful in detecting outages and alerting administrators where attention is needed. This setting controls whether all monitoring processes on this server are enabled or disabled. Monitoring should never be disabled on the server during production hours. The processing cycles needed for monitoring should be incorporated into server sizing. If the configuration disables monitoring, it stops Exchange's built in safety checks to warn the administrators of malfunctions.

Description

Monitors are automated “process watchers” that respond to performance changes, and can be useful in detecting outages and alerting administrators where attention is needed. This setting controls whether all monitoring processes on this server are enabled or disabled. Monitoring should never be disabled on the server during production hours. The processing cycles needed for monitoring should be incorporated into server sizing. If the configuration disables monitoring, it stops Exchange's built in safety checks to warn the administrators of malfunctions.

STIG	Date
Microsoft Exchange Server 2003	2014-08-19

Details

Check Text ( C-22481r1_chk )
Review Exchange Monitoring. Procedure: Exchange System Manager >> Administrative Groups >> [administrative group] >> Servers >> [server] >> Properties >> Monitoring tab The “Disable monitoring of this server” checkbox should be clear. Criteria: If the “Disable monitoring of this server” checkbox is cleared, this is not a finding.

Fix Text (F-19419r1_fix)
Configure monitoring. Procedure: Exchange System Manager >> Administrative Groups >> [administrative group] >> Servers >> [server] >> Properties >> Monitoring tab Clear the “Disable Monitoring of this server” checkbox.