Compaq Factory-Installed Operating System Software for Microsoft Windows NT 4.0 Server Enterprise Edition on ProLiant CL380 Servers User Guide

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Verifying Network Client Failover
After verifying that each server node is running correctly as a part of the
cluster, verify that the network clients can interact with the cluster.
Follow these steps to verify that the network clients can interact with the
cluster:
1. Ensure that both server nodes are running, and use Cluster
Administrator to verify that all groups and resources are online.
2. For each hard drive in the shared storage, the cluster server
automatically creates a cluster group that consists of a single resource,
the hard drive. Using Cluster Administrator, add an IP address as
another resource to one of these groups. (Do Not use the cluster group.)
Save the changes and return to the main Cluster Administrator screen.
3. Open a DOS window on a network client machine.
4. Ensure that the network client can access the IP address added in Step 2.
From the network client, execute a PING command using the
cluster IP address as the argument.
NOTE: The DOS command “PING” can be executed using WINS or DHCP.
The client has successfully accessed the cluster resource if a response is
received similar to:
Reply from <IP Address>: bytes=xx time=xxxms TTL=xx
The client has not successfully accessed the cluster resource if a
response is received similar to:
Reply from <IP Address>: Destination host unreachable
NOTE: If the client cannot successfully access the cluster resource, refer to the operating
system documentation for troubleshooting information.
5. Following the completion of the PING command, use Cluster
Administrator to perform a manual failover of the cluster group that
contains the IP address.
6. After the manual failover completes, execute the PING command again.