Microsoft KB Archive/173280

= XADM: Tracking Log Field Descriptions =

Article ID: 173280

Article Last Modified on 10/28/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Exchange Server 4.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Exchange Server 5.0 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q173280



SUMMARY
Tracking logs are created when message tracking is enabled on a Microsoft Exchange component. These logs can be read and edited by any text editor. The logs are tab delimited and can be loaded into spreadsheet programs, such as Microsoft Excel. You can also write an application to interpret message-tracking logs.



MORE INFORMATION
Tracking logs are located in \Exchsrvr\Tracking.log. Each daily log is named by the date it was created (yyyymmdd.log format). The filename date, like all times in the tracking log, is in Greenwich Mean Time (GMT). The following table defines the fields in the tracking logs: Field #          Field Name                  Description

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1            Message ID or MTS-ID        Message ID is a unique identifier assigned to the message by Microsoft Exchange Server. It stays with the message from its origination to delivery or transfer from the network.

Messages from foreign systems include a message transfer system-ID (MTS-ID) that uniquely identifies the message transfer component that transported the message.

2            Event Number                Represents the event type.

3            Date/Time                   Date and time of the event in                                          GMT.

4            Gateway Name                Name of the gateway or the connector that generated the event. If no gateway was involved, the field is blank.

5            Partner Name                Name of the messaging service associated with the event. In Microsoft Exchange Server, the partner is the MTA or the information store.

6            Remote ID                   The message ID used by the gateway.

7            Originator                  Distinguished name of the

originating mailbox, if known. 8            Priority                    Priority set by the sender.

0 = Normal 1 = High -1 = Low

9            Length                      Message length in bytes.

10           Seconds                     Transport time in seconds.

Not used by Microsoft Exchange Server. The value in this field is 0 or blank.

11           Cost                        Cost per second for message transfer.

Not used by Microsoft Exchange Server. The value in this field is always 1.

12      Subject-ID or Report MTS-ID This field is blank (empty) for normal messages. For reports its value is the Report MTS-ID.

13           Recipients                  Numbers of recipients.

14           Recipient Name              Distinguished name of the recipient of the message or                                         a proxy address.

This field is separated from the previous field by a linefeed.

The field is repeated for each recipient.

15           Recipient Report Status     A number representing the result of an attempt to                                         deliver a report to the recipient.

Delivered = 0 Not delivered = 1

This is used only for reports. On other events, it will be                                         blank. This field is repeated for each recipient. This information can also be found in the Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Maintenance and Troubleshooting Guide on pages 138 and 139.

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