DFS-R Health Check

Question

_{Monday, August 15, 2011 3:05 AM}

Here is a DFS-R Health Check utility i wrote, so i though i would post a quick note about it.

http://networkadminkb.com/Utilities/Descriptions/DFS-R%20Health%20Check.aspx

If you have a large DFS-R implementation to support, you know trying to find a free utility that can quickly generate a single health report on many servers at once is nearly impossible.  (i couldn't find a single free utility).  Microsoft has their Health Reporting tool that can be ran from the command line and GUI, but it will only report on one replication group at a time.  If you have 100s of these, that's 100s of reports to generate and review.

So i decided to write a quick utility that can monitor all of our 50+ DFS-R servers/100s of replication groups and create a single report.  I can check that report daily and take action to get more information if something is abnormal, otherwise i can ignore it.  I also wrote it so it will discover new replication groups/servers automatically, so there is not much to configure.  As long as you give it the the central hub in a DFS-R replication topology, it will discover all partners from that hub.  If you have mulitple hubs, specify all of the hubs in a single text file.

The first time i ran it, it mmediately told me about 3 problems i didn't know i had, because i hadn't checked on those replication groups in months.  Luckily, they were just minor errors, but being proactive is what this utiltiy is to be used for.  If it reports a problem, you still need to review the issue, and come up with a solution on your own...its a free utility after all.

Its simple and easy to use.  Give it a try.  Comments are welcome.

All replies (7)

_{Tuesday, September 20, 2011 5:04 PM}

You rock!  Any chance you'll open the code?  Just curious.  Keep up the great work!

_{Tuesday, September 20, 2011 6:10 PM}

Hi,

nice tool, will give a try in mine test environment. But for production purposes It would be nice to see the Source Code.

Thank you,

F. Schubert
System Administrator

_{Friday, April 11, 2014 8:50 AM | 1 vote}

I'm not able to download your tool, the download link is dead.

Could you please fix it?

_{Thursday, August 21, 2014 3:05 PM | 1 vote}

Link is not available for download. getting below error

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404 - File or directory not found.

The resource you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

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Shashi

_{Monday, February 15, 2016 4:58 PM}

If anyone has this useful tool, PLEASE post up a copy :-)

_{Thursday, February 25, 2016 8:58 AM}

Did someone have a copy of this script please.

this is exactly what i need.

_{Friday, March 24, 2017 5:30 PM}

I've been using this one and it works quite well...spent quite a bit of time looking around for something like this.  Glad I found it, hopefully it will be helpful to you as well.

https://thesurlyadmin.com/2012/08/03/dfs-replication-monitoring/