I’m shortly going to start work on a tool for monitoring the status of DFS Replication. While Microsoft provides us with the Health Monitor, and you can set up a script to generate health reports every now and then, I am going to develop one that actually tests the replication, and generates some really simple status reports.
This comes after a weeks worth of changes to our accounting package sadly being lost after replication stopped working in the middle of my exam study week. More on that later.
Please let me know if you have any suggestions for this tool, I am still very much in the stage of throwing ideas around for it, so let me know what you would want in it.
I will be releasing it freely when I get it to a working state.
Update (October 2009):
I haven’t got any further with this unfortunately, I got busy. I just had a look today and found a blog post that might be helpful. I’m still hoping to write something to do this more automatically, perhaps this summer.
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I have just come accross this site while looking for 2008 DFS monitoring tools. we had an issue recently with a customer where the DFS encountered replication problems that went unnoticed for several days, not good. Did you ever create a tool as I would be very interested in testing it if you have?
Thanks
Alistair
Hi Alistair, sorry I thought I had replied to you earlier. I still haven’t got around to creating it.. perhaps this summer! Cheers
I am very interested in your script. I am being asked to provide details on the status of replication within our namespace and replication sets. The requirement is to see if the replication sets are at zero or indicate how many files it is behind. They want to be able to see it mainly live, (what ever update interval) Will you be creating something like this?
Hello,
I am looking for the same script (monitoring DFS replication), i wonder if you have found something.
Regards,
BOUCHERIT Lotfi