Re: Acive/Passive Setup 2003 cluster administrator fails, main cluster fails, no event log probs

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OK. I will follow up with any entries for either.

I did not take the cluster group offline however.

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 06:41:26 -0500, "Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]"
<rod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>1) Check your event log
>2) Did you check your cluster.log
>3) Did you by chance take the cluster group offline before you rebooted?
>
>Cheers,
>
>Rod
>
>MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
>http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
>http://www.msmvps.com/clustering - Blog
>
>"Chris" <chris> wrote in message
>news:bp0ba15mm73h8imvg5tdb65b0afi791k9h@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Guys: I'm wondering if there's not a bigger problem with the cluster.
>>
>> Thanks for helping me get back into cluster admin btw.
>>
>> Anyway----before that happened I was trying to troubleshoot two
>> problems:
>>
>> First, a share problem: Two shares were not showing up, even though
>> when I tested it on the passive node, they were NOT visible to the
>> LAN, but going to the folder directly on the local machine (WCS2),
>> explorer showed the folders as shared------
>>
>> And that's where my problems got bad, because when I rebooted WCS2
>> (the passive node, which was active at the time) when it came back up
>> it could not see WCS1 (the active).
>>
>> I then shut both nodes down and brought WCS1 back up, and that's when
>> the cluster wouldn't respond (because apparently, the main cluster
>> group was offline)----
>>
>> Again, you guys are awesome-------any advice you may have would be
>> great. Thanks for the quick reply already.
>>
>> Chris
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 05:52:21 -0500, "Rodney R. Fournier [MVP]"
>> <rod@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Open the cluster administrator by using a period ".". This opens its with
>>>a
>>>Local Procedure Call and should allow you to start the needed resources.
>>>
>>>Cheers,
>>>
>>>Rod
>>>
>>>MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
>>>http://www.nw-america.com - Clustering
>>>http://www.msmvps.com/clustering - Blog
>>>
>>>"Gerald Aigenbauer" <ga@xxxxxx> wrote in message
>>>news:ekJ3XezaFHA.796@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> hi chris!
>>>>
>>>> open the cluster administrator, connect to one of the cluster nodes
>>>> directly and check which resources are not online.
>>>>
>>>> gerald aigenbauer.
>>>>
>>>> "Chris cirrus....tech com>" <chr.....is.f<atdot> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
>>>> news:mtaaa1pcto0g60eokmhaaihpco4u0fo9kj@xxxxxxxxxx
>>>>> On Tue, 07 Jun 2005 01:01:31 -0400, Chris
>>>>> <chr.....is.f<at>cirrus....tech<dot>com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>I have a win 2003 cluster going into production, running on a EMC
>>>>>>AX100.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Starting today, Cluster Admin failed to be able to open the cluster.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>However, the clustered applications (SQL, IIS) were still running.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>WCS-IIS (part of the cluster) worked
>>>>>>WCS-DB (SQL) worked
>>>>>>
>>>>>>yet, the main cluster---> wcs-cluster would not respond.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Currently I have the passive turned off---I have reentered the
>>>>>>passwords in the service settings, and restarted the server----
>>>>>>
>>>>>>The cluster service starts fine-------so at this point, i don't know
>>>>>>what to do. I can't find any help, and for that matter i'm not
>>>>>>exactly sure what to look for.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thanks for any replies
>>>>>>
>>>>>>(chrisf-adfda-@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>>>>
>>>>>>remove anything between and including -
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> as it is now, i've downloaded w2k3 res. kit, but the cluster
>>>>> diagnostic is not helping, as i'm not very familiar with it currently
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>

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