Installation and Troubleshooting Guide

34 Preparing Your Systems for Clustering
Verifying MSCS Operation
After you install MSCS, verify that the service is operating properly.
If you selected Cluster Service when you installed the operating system, see
"Obtaining More Information" on page 34.
If you did not select Cluster Service when you installed the operating system:
1
Click the Start button and select Programs → Administrative Tools , and
then select
Services .
2 In the Services window, verify the following:
•In the
Name column, Cluster Service appears.
•In the
Status column, Cluster Service is set to Started .
•In the
Startup Type column, Cluster Service is set to Automatic .
Obtaining More Information
See Microsoft's online help for configuring the Cluster Service.
See "Understanding Your Failover Cluster" on page 37 for more information
on the Cluster Service.
Verifying Cluster Functionality
To verify cluster functionality, monitor the cluster network communications
to ensure that your cluster components are communicating properly with
each other. Also, verify that MSCS is running on the cluster nodes.
Verifying Cluster Resource Availability
In the context of clustering, a resource is a basic unit of failover management.
Application programs are made up of resources that are grouped together for
recovery purposes. All recovery groups, and therefore the resources that
comprise the recovery groups, must be online (or in a ready state) for the
cluster to function properly.
To verify that the cluster resources are online:
1
Start Cluster Administrator on the monitoring node.
2 Click the Start button and select Programs → Administrative Tools
(Common)
→ Cluster Administrator .