You can determine the overall health or status of a site, in System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager, by inspecting the SMS_SummarizerSiteStatus object Status property. The Status property has three possible values:

Value Description

0

The site is healthy.

1

The site has warning conditions.

2

The site has error conditions.

SMS_SummarizerSiteStatus is an example of a System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager summarizer. For more information about other summarizer classes, see Status Server WMI Classes.

To determine a site's health

  1. Set up a connection to the SMS Provider. For more information, see About the SMS Provider in Configuration Manager.

  2. Get the SMS_SummarizerSiteStatus object by using the Configuration Manager site code.

  3. Inspect the SMS_SummarizerSiteStatus object Status property to determine the site status

Example

The following example determines the health of the site code supplied in the parameter siteCode.

For information about calling the sample code, see Calling Configuration Manager Code Snippets.

Visual Basic Script  Copy Code
Sub ShowSiteHealth(connection, siteCode)

	Dim siteHealth
	Dim health

	On Error Resume Next 

	' Get the site status summarizer.
	Set siteHealth = connection.Get("SMS_SummarizerSiteStatus.SiteCode='" & siteCode & "'")
	If Err.Number<>0 Then
		Wscript.Echo "Couldn't get site health"
		Exit Sub
	End If

	' Display the site health.
	health="Health for site " + siteCode + " "

	Select Case siteHealth.Status
		Case 0
			heath = health + "is OK"
		Case 1
			health = health + "has warnings"
		Case 2
			health = health + "is critical"
		Case Else
			health = health + "is not known"
	End Select	
	 
	Wscript.Echo health
End Sub
C#  Copy Code
public void ShowSiteHealth(WqlConnectionManager connection, string siteCode)
{
	try
	{
		IResultObject siteHealth = connection.GetInstance(@"SMS_SummarizerSiteStatus.SiteCode='" + siteCode + "'");

		Console.Write("Health for site {0}", siteCode);
		switch (siteHealth["Status"].IntegerValue)
		{
			case 0:
				Console.WriteLine("is OK");
				break;
			case 1:
				Console.WriteLine("has warnings");
				break;
			case 2:
				Console.WriteLine("is critical");
				break;
			default:
				Console.WriteLine("is not known");
				break;
	}
}
	catch (SmsException e)
	{
		Console.WriteLine("Failed to show site status: " + e.Message);
}
}

The example method has the following parameters:

Parameter Type Description

connection

  • Managed: WqlConnectionManager

  • VBScript: SWbemServices

A valid connection to the SMS Provider. For more information, see About the SMS Provider in Configuration Manager.

siteCode

  • Managed: String

  • VBScript: String

A valid task System Center 2012 R2 Configuration Manager site code

Compiling the Code

This C# example requires:

Namespaces

System

System.Collections.Generic

System.Text

Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.ManagementProvider

Microsoft.ConfigurationManagement.ManagementProvider.WqlQueryEngine

Assembly

adminui.wqlqueryengine

microsoft.configurationmanagement.managementprovider

Robust Programming

For more information about error handling, see About Configuration Manager Errors.

Security

For more information about securing Configuration Manager applications, see Securing Configuration Manager Applications.

See Also