Win 2003 Server DFS Monitoring.

[Badgeroonie]

Hi all,

I currently run some Windows 2003 SP1 serves at two sites and rely heavily on DFS to distribute data from one to the other. This means there is quite a bit of information flying about. All works well, but I am finding myself in need of some way of finding out what is happening - i.e. what exactly is DFS doing right now?

I have looked online and the dfsutil.exe program doesn't seem to tell me much. Also I read that W2003 R2 makes some additions, but that would mean upgrading all the servers (again!)- see:

http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/Library/d3afe6ee-3083-4950-a093-8ab748651b761033.mspx

So, I would appreciate knowing how people out there are monitoring their DFS systems to see what's happening at any one point in time....perhaps there is a 3rd party snap in which is good?

Thanks in advance!

 

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