I thought I’d write a tiny follow up to my previous blog post Health Checking / Monitoring Exchange Server 2013/2016. I got exited about all the health checking stuff, so naturally I had to do some research about Lync/SfB Server as well. That said, I found a very comprehensive script written by Steve Moore. You can get the script from:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/canberrapfe/2014/12/11/lync-server-2013-health-check-script/
I’ve tested the script on both Lync Server 2013 and SfB Server 2015 with success. To put it briefly, it’s awesome! 🙂
As with the Exchange scripts, I wanted to use a scheduled task for running the script. I tried the same methods as with Exchange, but it failed. It turned out that this script wouldn’t accept the $true or $false parameters when running from a scheduled task. From the instructions:
Running the Script
To run the script you can use the following command line:
.\SystemStatus.ps1 -Action status -ServerFile c:\scripts\systemstatus\servers.txt -PoolName lync-pool.contoso.org -SendEmail $true -Environment Contoso -EventData $True
However, running the script from cmd (not PowerShell) or task scheduler you’ll get an error:
“Cannot convert value “System.String” to type “System.Boolean”, parameters of this type only accept booleans or numbers, use $true, $false, 1 or 0 instead”
My solution was to hard-code the parameters in the script itself, like so:
There was no need to edit PoolName but I did it anyways – it’s one less parameter to define when running the script. Same goes for Environment. The interesting parameter however was [bool]$SendEmail=$False. I changed this to $True so I didn’t have to specify it as a parameter when running the script. As a bonus I also removed CC and BCC from
Send-MailMessage -To $Recipients -From $FromAddress -CC $CC -BCC $BCC -Subject $strMailSubject -BodyAsHtml:$True -SmtpServer $SMTPHost -Body $strBody #Send the email
as I have no need to send CC’s or BCC’s. In other words:
Send-MailMessage -To $Recipients -From $FromAddress -Subject $strMailSubject -BodyAsHtml:$True -SmtpServer $SMTPHost -Body $strBody #Send the email
With these changes in place, it was easy setting up Task Scheduler:
- General: Run whether user is logged on or not. Run with highest privileges
- Trigger: Weekly, at 00:00 every Wednesday of every week.
- Action: Start a program
- Program/script: C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\powershell.exe
- Add arguments (optional): -NoProfile -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File “c:\software\scripts\SystemStatus.ps1” -Action status -ServerFile c:\software\scripts\servers.txt
servers.txt include the name of our front-end server.
And that’s it. You’ll then get a sexy report emailed back to you every Wednesday looking something like this:
Just some non-critical warnings and nothing major to worry about. All good!
Happy monitoring to you all! 🙂
