Cluster resource group "Available Storage"

[Anon Anon]

Does anyone know of a way to disable a resource group from being monitored using the cluster probe?

The option to "Allow 'Partially Online'" does not work for fully Offline resource groups.

 

In MS 2008 it not uncommon to have the built-in core resource group "Available Storage" offline.

 

My windows team has asked us to ignore that res group and after much research it seems other cluster monitoring applications, OpsMgr as well as MS' MOM, disables this resource check as well some by default for 2008 (possible feature request).  So I'm assuming it is ok to ignore these if MS is as well.

 

My workaround is NAS pre-proc filter for probe cluster, mess "Resource group 'Available Storage' is Offline".  Anyone else  come across this?

[Anon Anon]

I'm experiencing this also with our Micrososft 2008 / 2008 R2 clusters.  Is filtering on the NAS the only solution that other users are doing?

[Anon Anon]

If you run the following Power Shell command C:\PS>Get-ClusterGroup

 

you will see the following:

 

Name OwnerNodeState
---- --------- -----
SQL Network Name (MSSQLSERVER) Group Server1 Online
Cluster Group Server1 Online
Available StorageServer1Offline

 

By default the Resource Group Available Storage is not used and Offline. You can turn it Online with the following Power Shell command C:\PS>Start-ClusterGroup 'Available Storage'

 

you with then see the following:

 

Name OwnerNodeState
---- --------- -----
SQL Network Name (MSSQLSERVER) Group Server1 Online
Cluster Group Server1 Online
Available Storage Server1 Online

 

This will then correct the error within the Cluster Probe.

[Anon Anon]

Thank you for the response however my situation is I do not personally manage the cluster(s) and often my company may not own / manage the cluster but our customer may have monitoring as a service.

 

I was asking if possible to ignore at the probe level so that I could globally exclude this resource within my templates.  Much like CDM probe where you can set ignore/exclude on filessytems and mount points. I just curious to know if there may be some hidden parameter for ignoring resource groups within cluster probe cfg.

 

 

[Matthias Gruber]

Hi!

 

I opened a case at support for that one, got some sort of solution, but that seems not to be persistent.

Case 59366 if somebody is interessted, got a webex with following solutions

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Erstellt von: Mark Leach (26.08.2011 12:37)
Hi Matthias,

Thanks for the webex.

During the webex we changed the key so that it equalled the following:

allow_partial_online = 0

This stopped there alerting.

Please keep an eye on this and update this case if you have any problems.

Kind Regards
Mark

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What seems to be occuring is, that if the cluster switches and switches back "allow_partial_online" seems to be 1 because I got the alarm

I gave up to ask further, will only result in a feature request, which will be took years to be realized :-/

 

cheers

Matthias