Re: cluster resource environment variables

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Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 18:06:55 -0800

>From you description I am guessing that you will be running each of the
processes as a different service, that will be a "generic service" on the
cluster?
Correct me if am wrong.

In that case, you should be able to put whatever credentials you want the
service to run under. You can do that from the services mmc (services.msc).
This way you can do the same trick you mentioned for a single machine:

> Before clustering this meant that I created a local
> account and put the variable FOO in the account
> environment variable instead of the system environment. I
> then had the service use the local account and life was
> good.

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"Andrew Hood" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> I would like to apologize in advance for any inaccuracies
> in windows cluster terminology.  Please bear with me.
>
> I have three different services I want to run on a two
> node Win2k cluster.  (by this I mean I have three
> different server processes I would like to be able to
> independently move from one node to another)
>
> Each server process relies on environment variables to
> tell it where its brain is.  For illustration lets say
> that each process looks at the environment variable FOO to
> find the path to its configuration file.
>
> Each process needs to have FOO set to a different value.
>
> Before clustering this meant that I created a local
> account and put the variable FOO in the account
> environment variable instead of the system environment.  I
> then had the service use the local account and life was
> good.
>
> I am being told that when we use a cluster, all clustered
> resources (services) use the same set environment
> variables.  I am being told that it is impossible for
> clustered application A to see FOO=c:\bar and clustered
> application B to see FOO=s:\bar.
>
> Please tell me that this is not so!
>
> Please tell me there is a simple work around!
>
> Thanks for your help.

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