By Philip Churchill on November 30th, 2009
Health Status in Power Pack 3
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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I installed PP3 yesterday and I can’t find this file.
I also installed PP3 on my HP Media Smart Server and the xml file isn’t there.
If you run the URL as instructed I believe this file is generated on request.
It worked fine for me.
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.
It works, of course only in the local network.
Not sure this is such a great idea from a security standpoint as it exposes intranet knowledge not otherwise available without authentication…
Ahh–no port forwarding for this port by default. Maybe not such a bad thing after all…
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
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).