automatic failing over of clusters

[techierich]

Hi,

Does anyone know if there is any way of making the failing over of a cluster an automatic process.

I have to fail over a cluster every no and again but have to come into work at like 6:30am to do it and i was wondering is there any tool that can do this for you and how it works ?

Many thanks,
Richard.

 

[FrogEater]

Hello Richard,

Batch file to apply follwing article

http://technet2.microsoft.com/windo...6281-4119-8a65-6463be5646a61033.mspx?mfr=true

add everything in the Windows Scheduler & you're done.

Chris

 

[mrdenny]

Why would you want to schedule the failover of your cluster? The whole point of the cluster is that is should never have to go down.

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[xmsre]

If you want to fail the groups over on a scheduled basis, you can use the cluster.exe command line to offline a resource in each group. As long as the failure of the resource affects the group, the group will fail over.

As an example, let's take the default cluster group. This group contains an IP, a Name, and a Disk resource. If I fail the IP, then the cluster group will fail over to the other node.