Enterprise Vault™ Introduction and Planning
- About this guide
- Introduction
- Overview of Enterprise Vault
- How Enterprise Vault works
- About Enterprise Vault indexing
- About Enterprise Vault tasks
- About Enterprise Vault services
- About the Enterprise Vault Outlook Add-In
- About Enterprise Vault Search
- Enterprise Vault administration
- About reporting and monitoring in Enterprise Vault
- Exchange Server archiving
- Exchange Public Folder archiving
- File System Archiving
- Archiving Microsoft SharePoint servers
- Domino mailbox archiving
- Domino Journal archiving
- SMTP Archiving
- Microsoft Teams Archiving
- Skype for Business Archiving
- Enterprise Vault Accelerators
- About Compliance Accelerator
- About Discovery Accelerator
- Building in resilience
- Planning component installation
- Where to set up the Enterprise Vault Services and Tasks
- Installation planning for client components
- Planning your archiving strategy
- How to define your archiving policy for user mailboxes
- How to plan the archiving strategy for Exchange public folders
- How to plan settings for retention categories
- How to plan vault stores and partitions
- About Enterprise Vault reports
Introduction to the Admin Service
The Admin Service has two main functions: it installs new Enterprise Vault license keys, and it provides a general monitoring service that runs automatically whenever any other Enterprise Vault task or service starts. It is installed automatically when you install any of the other Enterprise Vault services.
The Enterprise Vault Admin Service monitors the following:
Free space on local hard disks. By default, the Admin Service monitors all local hard disks, but you can restrict it to specific disks if required.
The amount of available virtual memory.
The number of items on system message queues.
The Admin Service has a warning threshold and a critical threshold for each type of check. When the warning threshold is reached, the Admin Service writes a warning message to the Windows Application Log. When the critical threshold is reached, the Admin Service shuts down all Enterprise Vault tasks and services running on the same computer.
By shutting down Enterprise Vault before problems arise, this behavior helps to maintain the stability of Enterprise Vault.
The online help for the Enterprise Vault Administration Console describes how to control the behavior of the Admin Service.