This one is a little more useful.

Basically, this PowerShell script checks the SummaryCopyStatus and checks that it’s “Healthy” – if not, it will send an email reporting which Storage Group copy has failed.  You can run this script every hour or so, and be alerted when any SCR status has gone bad.

This is based on the same email code as my previous two posts. Bare in mind that I’m NOT a developer and my code is more than likely inefficient and ugly!

You can download the script CheckSCRStatus.ps1

Or view the code:

$SCRStatus = Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus -Server PRIMARYSERVER -StandbyMachine SECONDARYSERVER | Where {$_.StorageGroupName -eq “First Storage Group”}
if ($SCRStatus.SummaryCopyStatus -ne “Healthy”)
{
$MessageBody = “The SCR for ” + $SCRStatus.StorageGroupName + ” has failed”
$FromAddress = “FromAddress@yourdomain.com”
$ToAddress = “ToAddress@yourdomain.com”
$MessageSubject = “SCR Status Failure”
$SendingServer = “MAILSERVER”
$SMTPMessage = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage $FromAddress, $ToAddress, $MessageSubject, $MessageBody
$SMTPMessage.IsBodyHtml = $true
$SMTPClient = New-Object System.Net.Mail.SMTPClient $SendingServer
$SMTPClient.Send($SMTPMessage)
}
Else
{
Write-Host “First Storage Group All Good!”
}
$SCRStatus2 = Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus -Server PRIMARYSERVER -StandbyMachine SECONDARYSERVER | Where {$_.StorageGroupName -eq “Second Storage Group”}
if ($SCRStatus2.SummaryCopyStatus -ne “Healthy”)
{
$MessageBody = “The SCR for ” + $SCRStatus2.StorageGroupName + ” has failed”
$FromAddress = “FromAddress@yourdomain.com”
$ToAddress = “ToAddress@yourdomain.com”
$MessageSubject = “SCR Status Failure”
$SendingServer = “MAILSERVER”
$SMTPMessage = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage $FromAddress, $ToAddress, $MessageSubject, $MessageBody
$SMTPMessage.IsBodyHtml = $true
$SMTPClient = New-Object System.Net.Mail.SMTPClient $SendingServer
$SMTPClient.Send($SMTPMessage)
}
Else
{
Write-Host “Second Storage Group All Good!”
Exit
}

I’ve been playing around writing some simple PowerShell scripts today so I thought I would fix the reporting problem Microsoft haven’t.

I’ve written a simple PS script that gets the Status(Health), Replay Queue Length, Last Replayed Time and Last Full Backup Time and emails it to a specified address in a HTML table. Just use Task Scheduler to run this daily and you will receive the status of your SCR clusters.

You can download the script here EmailStorageGroupCopyStatusReport.ps1

Or view the script below:

#Replace the PRIMARYSERVER attribute with your production mail server, and the SECONDARYSERVER with your SCR replica
$MessageBody = Get-StorageGroupCopyStatus -Server PRIMARYSERVER -StandbyMachine SECONDARYSERVER | Select @{Expression={$_.StorageGroupName};Name=”Storage Group”}, @{Expression={$_.SummaryCopyStatus};Name=”Status”}, @{Expression={$_.ReplayQueueLength};Name=”Replay Que Length”}, @{Expression={$_.LastReplayedLogTime};Name=”Last Replayed Time”}, @{Expression={$_.LatestFullBackupTime};Name=”Last Full Backup”} | ConvertTo-Html

#Enter your mail server details
$FromAddress = “FromAddress@YourDomain.com”
$ToAddress = “ToAddress@YourDomain.com”
$MessageSubject = “Exch07 SCR Status”
$SendingServer = “MAILSERVER”
$SMTPMessage = New-Object System.Net.Mail.MailMessage $FromAddress, $ToAddress, $MessageSubject, $MessageBody
$SMTPMessage.IsBodyHtml = $true
$SMTPClient = New-Object System.Net.Mail.SMTPClient $SendingServer
$SMTPClient.Send($SMTPMessage)
#Written by Matt Shadbolt
#http://www.mattlog.net