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POP3 Adapter Performance Counters

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Performance counters allow you to monitor specific aspects of work performed on the site or system by service. Performance counters can help you identify and troubleshoot server performance issues.

The following performance counters are accessible for each host instance under the BizTalk:POP3 Receive Adapter performance object category:

Category Counter Description
BizTalk:POP3 Receive Adapter Active sessions Number of open POP3 connections the POP3 adapter is managing at a time.
Bytes received Total number of bytes downloaded by the POP3 adapter from a mail server.
Bytes receive/Sec Number of bytes downloaded by the POP3 adapter from a mail server per second.
Messages received Total number of email messages downloaded by the POP3 adapter from a mail server.
Messages received/Sec Number of email messages downloaded by the POP3 adapter from mail server per second.

To access performance counters

Follow these steps to access performance counters for the POP3 adapter:

If you are using Windows 2008

  1. Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, and then click Performance Monitor.

  2. In the Performance Monitor dialog box, expand Monitoring Tools, select Performance Monitor, and then click Add.

  3. In the Add Counters dialog box, from the Available Counters list, expand the BizTalk:POP3 Receive Adapter performance counter object and select the counters to be monitored

  4. In the Instances of Selected object list, select the specific instances to be monitored for the selected counters and then click Add. To select all available counter instances, select <All instances>.

  5. After adding the counters, click OK.

    The selected performance counters appear on the Performance Monitor screen.

See Also

Monitoring BizTalk Server
Processing Multi Part Messages with the POP3 Adapter
Considerations for Running Adapter Handlers within a Clustered Host