How to handle clusters

[Petrucci, Joseph]

I am currently monitoring a group of Microsoft SQL server clusters. currently I monitor the two individual machines (Win 2003 ) for CPU, disk, mamory, etc.... and then monitor the Virtual IP for all my Database services and statistics. I was wondering if it is first possible to make the virtual host dependant on both physical hosts (2 parents) next I was wondering if anyone has experience with monitoring MS clusters and can tell me how to monitor for which is the active node of the database cluster. I was thinking of using a passive check on the SQLServer service to determine which node is active but  is there something I can monitor at the OS level that could give me more information?
 
Thank you in advance
Joe
 

 

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