Monitoring windows DFS

[macarranza]

What is the best way to monitor windows servers with distributed file system?
We have centralized repositories for user data at remote locations, replicating to a central server in our data center.
Currently using WMI for nagios checks in those servers

[scottwilkerson]

What are you trying to monitor on these server? Using WMI is fine, however if you want to monitor the DFS itself you would likely need to add an agent like NCPA or NSClient++ you you can install a plugin for them.

There is a DFS plugin here
https://exchange.nagios.org/directory/A ... og/details

[macarranza]

Thanks for your reply.
I would like to monitor DFS behavior (e.g. synchronization errors)
WMI can only tell me if the services are running.
what kind of information can I get with the plugin?

MC

[scottwilkerson]

what kind of information can I get with the plugin?

Check DFS Replication and Check DFS Backlog

If you want error information the only way I know to get that is to find it in the Eventlog

Nagios Log Server can make finding these and alerting on them a breeze if you have it.
https://www.nagios.com/products/nagios-log-server/