monitoring windows clusters

[Terry]

On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 1:51 AM, Jim Avery<jim at jimavery.me.uk> wrote:
> 2009/8/27 Terry <td3201 at gmail.com>:
>
>> The other thing we have tried with clusters is to monitor cluster
>> services and cluster resources on a specific cluster IP and only
>> monitor stock windows services and drives on the actual host.
>
>
> Absolutely this is what I do.  I monitor the clustered services
> associated with a 'host' on the clustered IP address.  This clustered
> 'host' has the actual servers as its parents.
>
> I only use the check_cluster plugin for clusters of the kind where all
> nodes in the cluster are live at the same time, for example a Citrix
> farm where I only want to be bothered out of hours if more than a
> couple of nodes are down at a time.
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------


That sounds good too.  I think both options are good.  The other thing
to consider is determining when a failover event has occurred.  I
imagine this can be done with eventlog monitoring but any other tricks
out there?  None of this is too hard, just want some alternative
ideas.  Thanks all!

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