Run all SharePoint 2010 health rules now!

Toni Frankola - October 18, 2010

Joel recently posted: Warning to SharePoint Administrators: Don’t Ignore the Red Health Bar and you should follow his advice and maintain your farm. While preparing a roll-out for a client I created yet another SharePoint 2010 lab/test farm. Once finished I wanted to check if everything is okey with the farm, but could not wait for hour/day/week month till health jobs executed via SharePoint timer. Here is a simple PowerShell script to execute all farm health check immediately:

# check to ensure Microsoft.SharePoint.PowerShell is loaded
$snapin = Get-PSSnapin | Where-Object {$_.Name -eq 'Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell'}
if ($snapin -eq $null) {
  Write-Host "Loading SharePoint Powershell Snapin"
  Add-PSSnapin "Microsoft.SharePoint.Powershell"
}

Get-SPTimerJob | Where {$_.Name -like "*Health*" -and $_.Name -like "*-all-*"} | Start-SPTimerJob

Couple of notes:

The script will start all SPTimerJobs that contain words Health and -all- in job name
A “health job” with the keyword “-all-” in its name will run on all servers in the farm that run the SharePoint Timer Service and the Usage and Health Data Collection Service application
A “health job” with the keyword “-any-” in its name will run on the first server found in the farm that runs the SharePoint Timer Service and the Usage and Health Data Collection Service application.
Check full list of SPTimerJob definitions.