Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Overview..................................................................................................................... 1
This chapter covers the features of the Isode M-Switch required by Operators of M-Switch. It gives
detailed descriptions of the monitoring and control features and components, especially the Graphical
Management tools. It also provides links to the complementary volumes, M-Switch Administration Guide
and the M-Switch Advanced Administration Guide .
Chapter 2 Message Switch Console............................................................................................ 2
Message Switch Console (MConsole) is a graphical management tool that can be used on UNIX or
Windows to monitor, control and configure Isode messaging services, including M-Switch. This chapter
introduces MConsole and explains how to start it up.
Chapter 3 Message Switch Console Operator Views................................................................ 4
This chapter lists the MConsole Operator Views and provides a brief summary.
Chapter 4 Starting and Stopping................................................................................................ 5
Starting and stopping the Messaging Services on both UNIX and Windows systems are described in this
chapter.
Chapter 5 Switch Operations...................................................................................................... 9
This chapter describes how the Switch Operations View is used to manage MTAs, Channels, Messages
and Recipients.
Chapter 6 Events........................................................................................................................ 14
This chapter describes M-Switch Events and the how the Event Viewer View is used.
Chapter 7 Alerts......................................................................................................................... 18
This chapter describes M-Switch Alerts and how the Alert Viewer View is used.
Chapter 8 Message Tracking..................................................................................................... 22
This chapter describes the AuditDB views used for message tracing and searching.
Chapter 9 ACP142 View............................................................................................................ 27
This chapter describes how ACP142 features of M-Switch are monitored and operated. This is performed
using the M-Console ACP142 View.
Chapter 10 ACP127...................................................................................................................... 32
This chapter describes how ACP127 features of M-Switch are monitored and operated. This is performed
using the M-Switch ACP127 View.
Chapter 11 Vetting View.............................................................................................................. 48
The Vetting View allows Operators to check that selected messages are suitable for queueing and sending
and then manually release them for processing.
Chapter 12 Diversions.................................................................................................................. 49
This chapter describes the M-Switch Diversions View is used.
Chapter 13 Correction View........................................................................................................ 50
This chapter describes the Corrections View which allows operators to correct messages which would
otherwise be non-delivered.
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