DFS-N Monitoring

[ubern00b]

Hi all

Does anyone know if you can monitor DFS-N failovers at all? Does it write to event log?

For instance, I have a namespace with 2 targets in it. Target 1 is set referral ordering to "First among all targets". Target 2 is set to "Last among all targets". In the event the first target is not available and DFS-N points my clients to Target 2 I would like to know about it, monitoring alert via event logs or something.

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

 

[Nate--IRL--]

If you are going to use DFS, use this tool to monitor it's health - it is the only DFS GUI tool I've been able to find. It is in Portuguese, but really good.

http://blogs.technet.com/b/suporte/archive/2010/09/17/dfsrmon-v1-1-0.aspx

With DFS Targets failing over, or even the Replication failing completely - the only way you will know about this is from the event logs, under Applications and Services Logs --> DFS Replication

Also, the only way you'll be able to recover from a failed replication state is from the instructions contained within these logs.

Ideally you would have some sort of solution to alert you for specific event items showing up.

Nate

 

[ubern00b]

Let's separate DFS-R from DFS-N as I am only specifically interested in namespaces and not replication (I already have replication monitoring setup and working).

DFSRMon which I have used for a while now is indeed very good but only DFS-R centric, as far as I know?

Really, I am just looking for some event ID that says "namespace x failed over to secondary target". If it exists of course.

 

[Nate--IRL--]

Ahh I see, apologies, I should read post more carefully. AFAIK there are no DFS-N event logs for your purpose. The Only way to tell maybe is if the DFS-R logs indicate a change in replication I suppose. If you just have the Namespace and no replication, there seems to be no way of telling.

I see nothing in the "DFSN-Server" logs when I know for certain that my namesspaces would have moved server (due to a reboot).

Nate