RE: MS Cluster

["Storer, Raymond" <storerr (at) nibco.com>]

Vernon,

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.

Ray

From: Everett, Vernon [mailto:Vernon.Everett (at) woodside.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 2:08 AM
To: Storer, Raymond
Cc: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: RE: MS Cluster

Hi Raymond

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.
The problem is, the disk devices appear to be dynamic on the component servers.
Imagine a database server WINDB01, consisting of servers WINDB02, WINDB03 and WINDB04.
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.

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.
This will give us continuous graphs for local and shared/pooled resources.

Any ideas?

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From: Storer, Raymond [mailto:storerr (at) nibco.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 11 November 2008 10:54 PM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Cc: Everett, Vernon
Subject: RE: MS Cluster
Hello, Vernon!

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?

Ray

From: Everett, Vernon [mailto:Vernon.Everett (at) woodside.com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2008 1:35 AM
To: hobbit (at) hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] MS Cluster

Hi all

Has anybody had any success monitoring Microsoft Database cluster using Xymon/Hobbit?

Cheers
     V




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