Power Pack 3 (PP3) has added a file called health.xml, which can be found at http://servername:55000/health/health.xml. This file stores information about both your server and connected computers including storage and share details.
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Health Status in Power Pack 3
November 30, 2009 — Philip Churchill11 Responses to “Health Status in Power Pack 3”
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November 30, 2009 at 3:09 pm
I installed PP3 yesterday and I can’t find this file.
November 30, 2009 at 3:23 pm
[...] wirklich interessanter Hinweis, den Phillip Churchill eben auf seinem Blog MSWHS.com gegeben hat. Danach gibt es seit dem Power Pack drei eine neue XML Datei mit dem Namen health.xml, die man über [...]
November 30, 2009 at 3:59 pm
I also installed PP3 on my HP Media Smart Server and the xml file isn’t there.
November 30, 2009 at 4:56 pm
If you run the URL as instructed I believe this file is generated on request.
It worked fine for me.
November 30, 2009 at 6:56 pm
The file is there. I was able to view it using the provide URL. However, I can’t view it via remote access so http://servername.homeserver.com:55000/health/health.xml doesn’t seem to work.
November 30, 2009 at 7:34 pm
It works, of course only in the local network.
November 30, 2009 at 8:31 pm
Not sure this is such a great idea from a security standpoint as it exposes intranet knowledge not otherwise available without authentication…
November 30, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Ahh–no port forwarding for this port by default. Maybe not such a bad thing after all…
November 30, 2009 at 8:54 pm
There are know (see MS Connect) issues with the generation of this file. Not everyone will be able to find the file. My system has a problem with the service that generates this file causing a ‘class not found’ error every minute. This was reported during the beta phase and by a number of people since thr RTM.
Simon
December 1, 2009 at 2:38 pm
This is interesting … but has anyone whipped up a XML-to-pretty-formatting thing?
December 1, 2009 at 3:38 pm
It looks like this is used by the Media Center Console View add-in, since this is exactly the information the console view shows, tab by tab (storage, shares, backup, etc).