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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks Etienne,</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I have implemented those changes.. All look good. How do you deal with event log errors? I was thinking a combo test would work..</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">A few other issues:</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Say I wanted to monitor a shared disk F: on the cluster. The shared drive is 1TB in size. For the moment the disk is on node1 of the cluster. Now I want to alert only when the disk gets to 50gb left. This is easy to do in the bbwin.cfg file on node1. </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Suppose now we have a failover of the resource to node2. It has no idea about the 50gb limit and back on node1 it is in an alert status because it can't find the F: drive.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">How do I get around this?</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Thanks for your help</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-ie"></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Padraig Lennon</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">-----Original Message-----</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">From: Etienne Grignon [</FONT></SPAN><A HREF="mailto:etienne.grignon@gmail.com"><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><U><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">mailto:etienne.grignon@gmail.com</FONT></U></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">] </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Sent: 03 June 2008 22:21</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">To: hobbit@hswn.dk</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Subject: Re: [hobbit] Windows Cluster Monitoring Advice</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Hello Padraig,</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">2008/6/3 Lennon, Padraig <Padraig.Lennon@pioneerinvestments.com>:</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> Hi everyone,</FONT></SPAN>
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<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> I have a requirement to monitor some 2 node Windows 2003 File Clusters . I</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> would like to monitor them with BBWin but I have the following questions:</FONT></SPAN>
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<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> Should I install the bbwin client on both nodes and activate only one of the</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> nodes for monitoring? With this setup I miss monitoring the local C/D drives</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> on each node.</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> Is it possible to make bbwin a clustered application? (i.e. one that would</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> failover using the MS clustering mechanism)</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> The cluster.exe supplied with the bbwin package only shows the cluster</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> groups, not the individual items within the groups. Has anyone written any</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> extended cluster checks that they would possibly share with me? If not I can</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> write my own. I'm sure I can get this information with WMI.</FONT></SPAN>
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<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> At the moment I setup the bbwin client on one of the nodes and then change</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> the registry entry to use the cluster name (i.e I install on a node</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> fileclus1n1 and change the registry key to fileclus1). Is this the correct</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> way to setup the monitoring? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.</FONT></SPAN>
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<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> I realise the question should probably be on the BBWIN mailing list, but I</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">> thought I would have more chance of getting a reply on this list.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">This is how I monitor MSCS clusters. I install BBWin on both nodes. I</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">also install the cluster.exe external to be run on both nodes.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">The cluster.exe external will check that every resource of the MSCS</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">cluster is online. If the node switch to the other node, you will get</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">an alarm on it until you acknowledge the alarm by deleting a temporary</FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">file on each node.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">I hope it will be enough for you.</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Regards,</FONT></SPAN>
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<P><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">-- </FONT></SPAN>
<BR><SPAN LANG="en-ie"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Arial">Etienne GRIGNON</FONT></SPAN>
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