Re: Antivirus Software May Cause Problems with Cluster Services?

I had this problem with SAV 10.0.1.1000. Once I removed SAV the failover
worked fine.

<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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