how to monitor file share witness is online

how to monitor the file share witness and cluster is online?

August 4th, 2015 11:59pm

If there are an odd number of DAG members, there's absolutely nothing to monitor because the FSW isn't used.  If there are an even number of DAG members, you can enter:

Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup -Identity DAG_NAME -Status | FL

https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd351226(v=exchg.150).aspx

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August 5th, 2015 2:10am

We can monitor the DAG using the below command.

Get-DatabaseAvailabilityGroup -Identity DAG -Status | fl

The other option is using the Cluster Manager(Fail over Cluster manager) console.

If its even number of members in DAG we can see the FSW details.In case you have odd numbers for member it should not reflect in the console.

The below article will have the details when DAG's need the File Share witness.

https://www.credera.com/blog/technology-insights/microsoft-solutions/when-do-dags-need-a-file-share-witness/ 

August 5th, 2015 5:52am

it have other way to monitor?

thanks..

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August 7th, 2015 12:16am

There is no other option to monitor the File Share Witness.

Please propose as answer

August 7th, 2015 8:42am

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