[NTLUG:Discuss] Something like mdstat on Windows Server?

MadHat Unspecific madhat at unspecific.com
Wed Feb 15 09:29:27 CST 2006


You might try a list that deals with M$ products instead of a linux list.

Also look at http://www.sysinternals.com/

but take it off this list.

Neil Aggarwal wrote:
> Thomas:
> 
> I guess Microsoft did not think anyone would want to automate
> checking the health of their server.  That is just stupid.
> 
> Any other options you can think of?
> 
> I would really like to know if a disk fails without having to
> manually keep checking it.
> 
> Thanks,
> 	Neil 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On Behalf
> Of Thomas Cameron
> Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 9:32 PM
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Something like mdstat on Windows Server?
> 
> On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 20:43 -0600, Neil Aggarwal wrote:
>> Hello:
>>
>> Does anyone know if there is something like mdstat that runs on 
>> Windows Server 2003?
> 
> Not really, not from the command line.  You can right click on My
> Computer, go to Manage, then look under the disk management snap-in to
> check the health, but I don't know of anything command-line friendly.
> 


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