Re: [hobbit] Windows Cluster Monitor

[kevin grady <kevin.grady (at) gmail.com>]

Check out bb-mscs on deadcat. It does most of what I am looking for
and maybe enough for your demo. You'd need to adjust to script if you
want red if a resource goes offline. Right now it will turn yellow.


On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:14:00 -0500, Jeffcoat, Al <ajeffco (at) orhs.org> wrote:
> That'd be great.  We are demoing this for the new director on Monday, so
> that would really be nice.  Thanks very much.
> 
> If not, we'll coble something together base on the responses we've
> gotten so far.
> 
> The UNIX stuff is easy, it's been in place forever.  The windows stuff
> is new to me (I'm a home dabbler in windows) as far as a prd
> environment.  And, our windows admins have resisted this every time we
> bring it up, so I'm also fighting that resistance :).
> 
> In any case, thanks for the reply...
> 
> Al Jeffcoat
> IBM Certified Support Specialist, AIX
> Enterprise Storage Administrator
> System Programmer II
> (321)843-1051
> ajeffco (at) orhs.org
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kevin grady [mailto:kevin.grady (at) gmail.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 8:36 PM
> To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
> Subject: Re: [hobbit] Windows Cluster Monitor
> 
> I'll post something this weekend as I have been working on this for a
> SQL cluster we have running.
> 
> On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 19:46:06 -0500, kevin grady <kevin.grady (at) gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > 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/de
> fault.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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