DFS also includes the scout program, which system administrators can invoke from a single client machine to monitor the File Exporters on many File Server machines at one time. The scout program uses a graphical display to present machine usage statistics about the File Exporters it is monitoring. It can be instructed to highlight any value that exceeds a specified threshold for a statistic it is monitoring. It also indicates any machine whose File Exporter fails to respond to requests for information.
The scout program tracks the following statistics about the File Exporter on each machine being monitored: the number of connections that principals (users and machines) have open to the File Exporter; the number fetches (requests to send data) the File Exporter has serviced from clients; the number of stores (requests to store data) the File Exporter has accepted from clients; the number of client machines that have communicated with the File Exporter; and the number of kilobytes available on aggregates on the File Server machine on which the File Exporter is running.