MSCS Watcher

Created Issue: Cluster Groups distribuitet between 2 nodes

mix — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:03:29 GMT

i've installed the mscswatcher on my 2node-cluster and it works great. but: i don't have all the groups "online" on the same cluster node, but 3 groups on one node and the other 2 on the second node. now when i try to create the generic service resource in the cluster administrator i receive an error that that service already exists. can i install mscswatcher another time as a second service or how can i watch all my cluster groups that are distribuited on 2 nodes?

thanks for you'r help....mscswatcher is a great script!!

CREATED RELEASE: MSCS Watcher 2.01 (Apr 08, 2008)

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:38:43 GMT

Please make sure to read the "ReadMe" file (included in the installer and source code) to get details of what to change in the config file and how to setup the service for best results.

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josefn — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:34:46 GMT

Project Description
A small Windows service written in .Net 2.0 to hook WMI MSCluster.EventResourceStateChange Events and send SMTP events when cluster resources fail or change state. Runs on Windows 2003 Servers running the MSCS Cluster Service.

Project Background
This project came about through a deeper need for immediate notification and action when resources became unavailable or restarted in an MSCS Cluster. The desire was for something simple and straightforward that would be easy to setup. Our original thought was to use SCOM to watch the clusters... We're still working out our enterprise strategy for configuring and watching information from there. Not much good for the clusters in production now. Also no good if you don't want to spend the $$ for the SCOM licenses. Enter the MSCS Watcher. The first, non-released version of this was a polling tool that pinged the clusters every minute to get status and record it in a SQL table. Although I like the "record your results to SQL" model, This really needed to be simpler, and it needed to be event driven, which is where this version comes in.

I'm proud to offer the "2.0" version of MSCS Watcher out to any in need of such a tool. This version utilized WMI events from the MSCluster WMI root to trigger cluster status scans. It does simple SMTP notifications, although look for a 3.0 sometime in the future, when I put the option for SQL back in to it. Full source code is provided with the installer, as well as an NSIS script to create the installer. Enjoy!

-Josef Nielsen

Source code checked in

josefn — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:33:56 GMT

Source code checked in

josefn — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:30:59 GMT

Distribution 2.01

Source code checked in

josefn — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:49:24 GMT

Initial Upload of v.2.0.1

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josefn — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:31:07 GMT

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josefn — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:03:37 GMT