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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D">Vernon,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D">I’d put the node name on the client as the cluster name, not the node’s NetBIOS name if your cluster is active/passive. Then, when the active node changes
just run a script that changes the node name for the active node and recently deactivated node—perhaps adding and removing the M: drive monitoring as appropriate too. It isn’t perfect; and, you will miss a beat or two between active node checks. If all your
nodes are running active perhaps you could do something with WMI scripting against the cluster name to get the M: drive stats and tell bbwin to ignore the M: drive on all the nodes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D">Ray
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Everett, Vernon [mailto:Vernon.Everett@woodside.com.au]
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<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 12, 2008 2:08 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> Storer, Raymond<br>
<b>Cc:</b> hobbit@hswn.dk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: MS Cluster<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue">Hi Raymond</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue">I have no idea what the correct terminology is for this, being a Unix admin myself, but we are trying to keep tabs on a Microsoft Cluster running MS-SQL.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue">The problem is, the disk devices appear to be dynamic on the component servers.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue">Imagine a database server WINDB01, consisting of servers WINDB02, WINDB03 and WINDB04.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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color:blue">We are seeing disk m: for an example in WINDB02, then the graph disappears, and the disk m: suddenly appears on WINDB04, and then later vanishes again only to
appear back on WINDB02. It's a bit of a pain, because you have no continuity.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue">We are looking for a way to monitor the static drives on WINDB02,03 and 04 as normal disks, and then have the shared or pooled resources (whatever the term is
I don't know) listed on Hobbit under WINDB01, no matter where they really reside.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue">This will give us continuous graphs for local and shared/pooled resources.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";
color:blue">Any ideas?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Storer, Raymond [mailto:storerr@nibco.com]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, 11 November 2008 10:54 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> hobbit@hswn.dk<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Everett, Vernon<br>
<b>Subject:</b> RE: MS Cluster</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D">Hello, Vernon!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D">I do not have a MS DB cluster, but my Exchange 07 cluster monitoring works just fine. What is it you are trying to accomplish exactly?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D">Ray<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> Everett, Vernon [mailto:Vernon.Everett@woodside.com.au]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:35 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> hobbit@hswn.dk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [hobbit] MS Cluster<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hi all<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Has anybody had any success monitoring Microsoft Database cluster using Xymon/Hobbit?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Cheers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> V<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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