Setting Up Cluster Groups And Cluster Resources - Compaq CL380 - ProLiant - 256 MB RAM Software User's Manual

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Setting Up Cluster Groups and Cluster
Resources
7. As soon as the other server node brings the cluster group online, a
response similar to the one noted in Step 4 should be returned. If the
client successfully accessed the failed over IP address, your cluster is
working. If the client was unsuccessful, either the cluster group was not
configured correctly, the failover did not occur, or the PING command
was performed before the failover activity completed.
NOTE: To verify a more extreme case, rather than fail over the IP address, power down
the primary cluster server node and verify that the resource fails over to the other server
node.
You have now set up and configured all your clustering hardware. Microsoft
Windows 2000 Advanced Server and Cluster Service are installed on both
servers. You have validated your cluster and verified that everything is
working as planned. Now it is time to set up your applications to utilize the
capabilities of clustering.
If you have defined your cluster needs correctly and determined how to fit
your applications and environment into a cluster, configuring your applications
will be a straightforward task.
Although details of these procedures are beyond the scope of this guide,
several documents are available from both Microsoft and Compaq to assist
you with these final steps.
The best source of information concerning the steps to configure cluster
groups and cluster resources is the Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
documentation. Refer to that documentation for detailed setup information.
For a current listing of additional Compaq technical documents, refer to the
Compaq website:
http://www.compaq.com