# Refresh Site Recovery target checks after repairing a readiness warning

> How should an operator distinguish a stale target-configuration warning from a fresh replication error in the Site Recovery dashboard?

- Canonical URL: https://update.dsesecurity.com/updates/dse-20260909-221-refresh-site-recovery-target-checks-after-repairing-a-readiness-warning/
- Publisher: Detection Systems & Engineering (DSE Security)
- Author: DSE Security Editorial Team
- Published: 2026-09-10T00:28:15+00:00
- Modified: 2026-09-10T01:20:46+00:00
- Last reviewed by DSE: 2026-09-09
- Resource type: Guide
- DSE priority: Information
- Topics: Business Continuity, IT
- Reading time: 2 minutes

## What you need to know

How should an operator distinguish a stale target-configuration warning from a fresh replication error in the Site Recovery dashboard?

## Potentially affected

Use this distinction when a target resource or quota problem has been corrected but readiness still needs to be reassessed. Confirm the vault and affected machines before comparing counts; do not combine the configuration and replication views into one undifferentiated incident total.

## DSE recommendation

After an approved target-side repair, request fresh configuration validation and record what was reevaluated.

## Article

## Source facts

Azure Site Recovery detects configuration issues through a validator that normally runs every twelve hours, excluding software-update availability. The dashboard’s configuration refresh control can run that validation immediately. Its quota check compares available resources with the amount required to fail over every machine in the vault. Error summary counts are different: one server can appear under several active replication error symptoms. [Microsoft Learn](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-monitor-and-troubleshoot).

## Applicability

Use this distinction when a target resource or quota problem has been corrected but readiness still needs to be reassessed. Confirm the vault and affected machines before comparing counts; do not combine the configuration and replication views into one undifferentiated incident total.

## DSE recommendation

After an approved target-side repair, request fresh configuration validation and record what was reevaluated. Keep a separate list of machines and active error symptoms. Assign shared infrastructure problems to their owning component, but preserve the affected-machine list so a broad repair can be checked against each dependent workload.

## Verification

Compare the refreshed warning with the intended target resource and the current vault population. For replication symptoms, deduplicate machine identities before reporting the number of affected servers. Recheck each symptom after remediation, and distinguish a cleared configuration finding from continuing replication trouble. Leave an unexplained warning open rather than assuming that an earlier successful repair has already been observed.

## Official references

[Microsoft Learn: Azure Site Recovery dashboard and built-in alerts](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-monitor-and-troubleshoot).

## Primary reference

- Name: Azure Site Recovery dashboard and built-in alerts - Azure Site Recovery | Microsoft Learn
- Authority: Microsoft Learn
- URL: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/site-recovery/site-recovery-monitor-and-troubleshoot
- Source publication date: Not stated by the source

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