Chapter 4 Monitoring the Calendar Server

This chapter describes how to monitor Calendar Server activity. It provides examples that show how to obtain server statistics using the most common options for the cssession, csstats, and cstool command line utilities. For complete details on all the available options, see Appendix A, "Command Line Utilities."

To show the status of a specified user such as JSmith, enter the following command:

• maximum number of concurrent connections and total number of connections


• total number of successful and failed logins and connections


• number of database reads, writes and deletes

To list statistics specifically about the httpstat counter object, enter:

To list statistics continuously every 10 seconds about the wcapstat counter object, enter:

Use cstool utility's ping command to verify that Calendar Server is listening on a specified port. (Pinging the server does not verify that it is running, but indicates if it can accept a socket connection.) For example, to ping calserver to see if the Calendar Server is listening on port 80, enter the following command:

cstool -p 80 ping calserver

• -p 80 is the port number the Calendar Server listens to by default.
• calserver is the host name of the machine on which Calendar Server is installed.

Note. The Calendar Server must be running in order to run cstool.