Windows Cluster Monitor

[Jeffcoat, Al]

Hello All,

Our new director would like to monitor EVERYTHING from BB/Hobbit.  We
have been monitoring our UNIX and Storage Devices for a few years now.
Now that I have windows servers to monitor, I'd like to know if anyone
has a decent way to monitor Windows Clusters?  I had a thought to
monitor by ping each node in the cluster, and the cluster name, ie:

Nodea			- Application Offline
Nodeb			- Application Online
Clustername		- Application Responding @ This address

How would you set up resource (process) monitoring for an Active /
Passive cluster?  Or an Active / Active cluster?  

This is in response to a problem that has been occurring on a new 24x7
Windows server blue screening daily, in spite of all the "fixes" that
have occurred to solve the problem (more hardware, patches, reload os,
etc, etc).

We'll soon be moving the application to an AIX server, but I'll have the
same questions on an HACMP cluster at that point :)

TIA


Al Jeffcoat
IBM Certified Support Specialist, AIX
Enterprise Storage Administrator
System Programmer II
(321)843-1051
ajeffco at orhs.org


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