Monitoring Message Queues

Using the Management Console, you can monitor message queues, customize message list settings, and if needed, purge messages.

To monitor message queues:

1. In the toolbar, click the Server Info button.
2. In the contents pane, go to the bottom of the hierarchy tree and expand the Queues branch, then the Other Queues sub-branch.
3. Select a queue you want to review.
4. The queue's options appear in the display pane to the right, and the General tab (which appears by default) summarizes this queue:
   • The number of messages processed in the last 60 seconds
   • The number of messages actually in the queue (over a five minute period)
   • The total number of messages processed though the queue, since the last system restart.
5. You can customize the message list settings:
   • Use the menus to set the Type, Priority and Number of messages listed below.
   • Filter the messages by entering the text of a particular subject or sender.
6. If you choose, you can permanently store these settings for later reuse by clicking Save Changes at the bottom of the display pane.
7. Click the Refresh button. The list updates according to your specifications.
8. You can delete all messages in a queue by clicking Delete all listed messages in the lower right corner of this tab.

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