Re: Cluster server fails over when replistor service is stopped

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Dear SJK,

some questions, just to clarify:

1) the Replistor Service is a cluster resource ?
1a) if so, is the "affect group" property checked / on ?

If indeed the "affect group" is checked, then when the service goes to a
"failed state" it will affect the group, and the group will failover to
another node in your cluster.

2) when you say "service manually stopped" do you stop it in services
control panel ?

You should never stop a clustered service using services control panel, you
should ONLY stop a clustered service using cluster administrator or
cluster.exe ! (or third party using cluster API) Any other method will lead
to cluster setting the state to failed, and causing a fail over of the group
if the "affect group" property is set.

rgds,
Edwin.


"SJK" <SJK@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am running Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition in a clustered
environment (MS Cluster Administrator v5.2 (Build 3790.1830). There are
two
physical servers in the cluster and they connect to three cx300 disk
storage
devices on which we are holding 2 Terabytes of data. The "Live" cluster
server also connects to a remote server using a product called Replistor
which allow us to replicate our data between sites. The problem we have
is
when the replistor service on the "Live" cluster server is either stopped
manually or falls over it causes the cluster to fail over to the second
cluster server. Both cluster servers react in this way. The cluster
resource settings are set to "Restart" with a "Threshold of 3" and a
"Period
of 900 seconds" which I believe is the Microsoft defaults. Can anyone
offer
advice as to why our cluster is failing over?


--
SJK


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