Monitoring events

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Applies To: Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2003 R2, Windows Server 2003 with SP1, Windows Server 2003 with SP2

Monitoring events

You can monitor Message Queuing events using Event Viewer.

Message Queuing logs information about its operation to the Windows Server 2003 family event logs. Message Queuing events are located in the Source column under "MSMQ." Most events are written to the Application Log. Security-related events are written to the security log, and service-related events are written to the system log.

For information on how to view Message Queuing events, see View Message Queuing events.

For more information on Event Viewer, see Event Viewer.

There are three types of application events for Message Queuing in the Windows Server 2003 family Application Log, as follows:

  • Informational events. Infrequent, significant events that describe successful operations.

  • Warnings. Not necessarily significant events, but indicative of potential problems.

  • Errors. Events generated for significant problems.

Some application events are not logged at each occurrence. For example, if a Message Queuing server cannot establish a session with the destination computer, an event is logged for the first failure only and another event is logged after the session is established.

There are two types of security-related events for Message Queuing in the security log, as follows:

  • Success Audit. Generated when selected objects are successfully accessed.

  • Failure Audit. Generated when access to a selected object is denied.

For more information on access auditing, see Auditing Message Queuing objects.