I have a standard Windows 2012 R2 box setup with server core. I have the file server roles installed along with DFSR. I want to use the powershell tools like Get-DfsrState
and other Get-Dfsr*
to examine the health of my system.
This tool is present on one of the systems I have setup with a full GUI. But it isn't clear to me what I need to install it. A quick search of available Windows features shows that I have one DFS related feature not installed on the core server that is present on the full GUI system (i.e. RSAT-DFS-Mgmt-Con
). Am I correct in assuming this module comes as part of this feature? Unfortunately, when I try to add this feature using server manager from a remote system Windows tells me that it is going to install the full GUI?!
> Get-WindowsFeature | ? {$_.Name -like '*dfs*'}
Display Name Name Install State
------------ ---- -------------
[X] DFS Namespaces FS-DFS-Namespace Installed
[X] DFS Replication FS-DFS-Replication Installed
[ ] DFS Management Tools RSAT-DFS-Mgmt-Con Removed
Am I missing something? Do I really have to have a full GUI to use this command?
I guess I run this on a full desktop system and use the -ComputerName
option, but I was hoping to setup nagios to monitor the output of various systems with NRPE.