[hobbit] Windows Cluster Monitor

[kevin grady]

Use WMI to query the MSCluster_Resource groups and you can grab the
status of each resource and then report back to hobbit.

Here's a link to some examples from MS.

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/scriptcenter/scripts/network/cluster/default.mspx


On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 18:27:35 -0500, Jeffcoat, Al <ajeffco at orhs.org> wrote:
> 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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