After a brief search online, I think my issue is the "Current Host Server", which is shown in the Cluster Management, if you click on the node at the top, it's in the middle window. My current host server is the passive node. I've got the command to change it, but I'm waiting on a forum response as to whether running the command will cause a "blip" at all for users. Can't have that during working hours.
>>> <[email protected]> 7/25/2011 8:20 AM >>> When we do an RDP to the cluster name, the active note is connected. This (checking the machine name once logged in) is how we know which node it actually is (so we can do maintenance on the inactive node). -- richard Joseph Heaton <[email protected]> wrote on 07/25/2011 10:07:13 AM: > That's what I was thinking. Does anyone out there have a Windows > Failover Cluster set up, that could verify that? > > >>> "Mayo, Bill" <[email protected]> 7/25/2011 8:05 AM >>> > Should be the active node (i.e. the one that currently has the name > resource "online"). > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joseph Heaton [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 11:00 AM > To: NT System Admin Issues > Subject: Windows clustering question > > I have a couple of Windows Failover Clusters setup, in Server 2008 (not > R2). > > My question: If I RDP into the cluster name (not individual nodes), > what node should that connect to? Should it connect to the active node, > passive node, or is it random? My thought is that it should connect to > the active node, so that I can see the clustered resources, but is that > correct? > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ > <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: > http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software. > com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > > > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ > ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ > > --- > To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software. > com/read/my_forums/ > or send an email to [email protected] > with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
