Name
summary — show global metrics
Synopsis
summary [ with-mobile ]
Description
Perhaps the most common and useful command for the console, summary will produce global metrics such as queue sizes, message counts and throughput rates since startup or the last reset of statistics.
10:47:35 /tmp/2025> summary Summary Statistics Outbound Concurrency: 2248 Inbound Concurrency: 90 Active Domains: 35711 Active Queue Size: 8793 Delayed Queue Size: 263175 Destaged Queue Size: 0 Total Queue Size: 272334 DNS A Queries: 565284 DNS MX Queries: 243281 Pending DNS Queries: 116 Query Rate: 9.08 queries/second Successfully Delivered Messages: 2102439 Failed Messages: 2508439 Rejected Messages: 1 Received Messages: 4883262 Delivery Rate: 51.76 messages/second Reception Rate: 54.82 messages/second Statistics Last Reset: 89081 seconds Uptime: 89083 seconds
If you have configured your control listener to listen on the default Unix socket, you can invoke the summary command without opening the system console by issuing the command, ec_console /tmp/2025 summary .
The report fields are as follows:
- Outbound Concurrency
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The current number of established outbound sessions.
- Inbound Concurrency
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The current number of established inbound sessions.
- Active Domains
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The number of domains in the DNS cache.
- Active Queue Size
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The number of messages in the system that require immediate delivery attempts.
- Delayed Queue Size
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The number of messages in the system that have been delayed. A message is delayed due to transient delivery failures (4xx SMTP codes) and a retry time is calculated for the message. When that retry time is reached, the message will be moved from the delayed queue to the active queue.
- Destaged Queue Size
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The number of messages that have been destaged from the system.
- Total Queue Size
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The sum of all queues.
- DNS A Queries
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The total number of A/AAAA type queries issued since startup or last summary reset.
- DNS MX Queries
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The total number of MX type DNS queries issued since startup or last summary reset.
- Pending DNS Queries
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The total number of DNS queries that are not completed yet.
- Query Rate
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The average number of DNS queries/second performed since startup or last summary reset.
- Successfully Delivered Messages
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The number of messages successfully delivered by Momentum since it was started or since the last summary reset.
- Failed Messages
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The number of outbound messages permanently failed since it was started or since the last summary reset.
- Rejected Messages
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The number of messages rejected by Momentum since it was started or since the last summary reset.
- Received Messages
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The number of messages received by Momentum for deliver since it was started or since the last summary reset.
- Delivery Rate
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The average number of messages/second delivered (successful and unsuccessful) since Momentum was started or since the last summary reset.
- Reception Rate
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The average number of messages/second received for delivery since Momentum was started or since the last summary reset.
- Statistics Last Reset
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The number of seconds since statistics were reset using the "summary reset" command (see below).
- Uptime
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The number of seconds that Momentum has been running continuously.
Use the with-mobile option to display the status of SMPP and MM7 message queues.