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Looks like you actually would have to run these scripts each time you want to check the DAG status. I would like to have something to alert me automatically when the DAG shows offline in the MS Failover Cluster manager. There are several Exchange performance counters that are available, I just don't know which (if any) of them will alert me when the DAG is offline.
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Looks like you actually would have to run these scripts each time you want to check the DAG status. I would like to have something to alert me automatically when the DAG shows offline in the MS Failover Cluster manager. There are several Exchange performance counters that are available, I just don't know which (if any) of them will alert me when the DAG is offline.

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Chriskelk - Yes I probably could run a Powershell script (via a scheduled task) on a server to ping the DAG IP address. This would need to pinging the server several times a minute to be accurate and possibly creating unnecessary network traffic. Surely there is a way to do this by using the Performance counters that are already installed with Exchange.
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Chriskelk - Yes I probably could run a Powershell script (via a scheduled task) on a server to ping the DAG IP address. This would need to pinging the server several times a minute to be accurate and possibly creating unnecessary network traffic. Surely there is a way to do this by using the Performance counters that are already installed with Exchange.

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Which Performance counters can I use to alert me when my Exchange 2010 DAG Cluster goes off-line in MS Failover Cluster Manager?
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Which Performance counters can I use to alert me when my Exchange 2010 DAG Cluster goes off-line in MS Failover Cluster Manager?

Performance Counters that show if Exchange DAG Cluster is Off-line

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