Professional Windows® PowerShell for Exchange Server 2007 Service Pack 1

Part III: Working with PowerShell in a Production Environment

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In the following example the cmdlet is run from the active node on the test mailbox cluster:

Test-ReplicationHealth -MonitoringContext:$true

to produce the following:

Server Check Result Error

------ ----- ------ -----

MB100 PassiveNodeUp Passed

MB100 ClusterNetwork Passed

MB100 QuorumGroup Passed

MB100 FileShareQuorum Passed

MB100 CmsGroup Passed

MB100 NodePaused Passed

MB100 DnsRegistrationStatus Passed

MB100 ReplayService Passed

MB100 DBMountedFailover Passed

Events : {Source: MSExchange Monitoring ReplicationHealth

Id: 10000

Type: Success

Message: No monitoring errors occurred. All Exchange

replication health checks passed.}

PerformanceCounters : {}

Performance Monitor

Another way to monitor the system is through Performance Monitor. The following example shows the

script pattern that can be used to retrieve any counter. The first thing to do is the counter, object,

instance, and server parameters. The script sets the variables to get the

CopyQueueLength on the passive

node. To get information about replication, the server must be set to the passive node. This example also

shows how to make the output overwrite itself, instead of continually scrolling.

$Current = $host.UI.RawUI.Get_CursorPosition()

$Object=”MSExchange Replication”

$Counter=”CopyQueueLength”

$Instance=”First Storage Group”

$Passive_Node=”MB101”

$perf ...