Re: Antivirus Software May Cause Problems with Cluster Services?

Don't ever scan anything that the cluster may have open, Quorum log, MSDTC
folder, data files, etc. Some even leave all the cluster controlled drives
alone and exclude them!

Go with what the anti-virus software vendor will support!

Cheers,

Rod

MVP - Windows Server - Clustering
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<spowell71@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> In KB: "Antivirus Software May Cause Problems with Cluster Services"
> (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/250355/) it says
>
> "Even if you are not monitoring the shared disk, the filter drivers are
> still loaded and may affect the operation of the cluster."
>
> In KB: "Antivirus Software May Cause Problems with Cluster Services"
> (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/250355/)
>
> It make specific reference to Symantec filter driver (symevent.sys).
> These KBs are relatively recent 8/29/2005 & 8/2/20005, respectively.
>
>
> Here are Symantec KBs:
>
> "Does Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition support Windows 2000 cluster
> servers?"
> http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/9d94c8571a91ba4788256bf3007f62b5/461f5608ded0765d88256c84005ec0d2?OpenDocument&prod=Symantec%20AntiVirus%20Corporate%20Edition&ver=8.x&src=ent&pcode=sav_ce&dtype=corp&svy=&prev=&miniver=sav_8_ce
>
> "Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition support for Windows 2003 cluster
> servers"
> http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/9d94c8571a91ba4788256bf3007f62b5/ea0f9eb688b1318c88256db700767032?OpenDocument&prod=Symantec%20AntiVirus%20Corporate%20Edition&ver=8.x&src=ent&pcode=sav_ce&dtype=corp&svy=&prev=&miniver=sav_8_ce
>
> They say Symantec AntiVirus 8.1 and greater is OK for clustering but
> the problem is that this version came out prior to the MS KBs sited
> earlier. This is the classic "he said she said".
>
> Is there a rule of thumb or best practice regarding AntiVirus software
> installed on MS clustering?
>


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